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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
About This Book
To help you protect your VMware vCenter Server installation, the vCenter Server Heartbeat Administrator
Guide provides information about monitoring, managing, maintaining, and diagnosing issues along with the
architecture, configuration, and protection offered by vCenter Server Heartbeat.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for IT Administrators with a working knowledge of networking to include configuration
and domain administration on Windows™ 2008 and 2012 platforms, notably in Active Directory and DNS.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of
terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation go to www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
Overview of Content
This book is designed to provide guidance on the configuration and administration of vCenter Server Heartbeat,
and is organized into the following sections:
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Preface — About This Book (this chapter) provides an overview of this guide and the conventions used
throughout.
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Chapter 1 — Introduction presents an overview of vCenter Server Heartbeat concepts including the
architecture, communications, and failover processes.
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Chapter 2 — vCenter Server Heartbeat Monitoring describes monitoring operations and how to view the
operational status of vCenter Server Heartbeat and protected vCenter Server components.
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Chapter 3 — Managing vCenter Server Heartbeat provides instructions and procedures to configure
vCenter Server Heartbeat to provide protection to vCenter Server and its components and services.
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Chapter 4 — Maintaining vCenter Server Heartbeat discusses common procedures to perform the day-to-day
operations such as applying updates, hotfixes, and patches to your vCenter Server Heartbeat installation.
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Chapter 5 — vCenter Server Heartbeat Diagnostics identifies techniques to diagnose common issues and
unexpected behaviors.
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