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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Monitoring
- Supported vCenter Server Heartbeat Clients
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- vSphere Client Plug-in
- Server Monitoring
- Network Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Performance Monitoring
- Monitoring Data Replication
- Managing vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Server Configuration Wizard
- Managing Heartbeat Settings
- Managing Application Protection
- Managing Services
- Managing Tasks
- Managing Rules
- Managing Plug-ins
- Managing Data Protection
- Maintaining vCenter Server Heartbeat
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Diagnostics
- Collecting Diagnostic Logs
- Two Active or Two Passive Nodes
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out-of-Sync
- Channel Drops
- Performance Issues
- Passive Node Does Not Meet Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Hardware or Driver Issues on VMware Channel NICs
- Firewall Connection
- Channel Fails to Connect After Configuring Firewall Ports
- Incorrect VMware Channel Configuration
- VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter Is Enabled on the Channel NIC(s)
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- Application Slowdown
- Glossary
3Managing vCenter Server Heartbeat
vCenter Server Heartbeat provides the tools to customize configuration parameters to protect vCenter Server,
View Composer, and SQL Server in the event of hardware, operating system, network communications,
applications, or services failure.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Server Configuration Wizard,” on page 39
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“Managing Heartbeat Settings,” on page 48
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“Managing Application Protection,” on page 53
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“Managing Services,” on page 56
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“Managing Tasks,” on page 58
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“Managing Rules,” on page 61
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“Managing Plug-ins,” on page 62
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“Managing Data Protection,” on page 63
Server Configuration Wizard
vCenter Server Heartbeat's Server Configuration wizard (Configure Server wizard) configures and maintains
communications between vCenter Server Heartbeat nodes. After a system is set up and functioning correctly,
reconfiguration is not normally needed.
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