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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
Uninstalling a Plug-in
You can uninstall a plug-in when you upgrade or remove the application the plug-in protects, or when directed
by VMware Support.
Procedure
1 On the Applications: Plug-ins page, right-click an existing plug-in and select Uninstall or select the plug-in
and click Uninstall at the top of the pane.
A confirmation dialog appears.
2 Click OK.
Managing Data Protection
vCenter Server Heartbeat can protect many permutations or combinations of file structures on the active node
by the use of custom Inclusion and Exclusion filters configured by the administrator.
The filter driver identifies files to protect and disk I/O operations to intercept and replicate to the passive node.
Use this driver to filter files for inclusion in or exclusion from the replication process.
By default, vCenter Server Heartbeat automatically protects a folder called Protected on the system partition.
Note vCenter Server Heartbeat forbids replicating certain files and folders by using a veto action. If an Inclusion
filter contains any of those files or folders, the entire Inclusion filter is vetoed, even if an Exclusion filter is used
to prevent replication of those files and folders. Examples of prohibited folders are the vCenter Server Heartbeat
installation directory or the system32 folder.
The VMware application folder contains the active node‘s send and passive node’s receive queues on the
active and passive nodes.This folder must be explicitly excluded from file protection.
File Filters
File filters dictate which files are protected and replicated to the passive node.
The File Filters pane of the Data: File Filters page allows you to set up and manage Inclusion and Exclusion
filters.
The File Filters pane contains three columns:
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Filter – Lists the pattern for protecting files and folders on the active node.
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State – Identifies the filter as Effective, Subset (contained within another filter), or Not Effective (not
contained within another filter).
An Effective filter is properly configured and functions to protect (replicate) the stipulated files to the passive
node.
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Detail – Describes the file filter details based upon the state of the file filter.
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