6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Availability
- Contents
- About vSphere Availability
- Business Continuity and Minimizing Downtime
- Creating and Using vSphere HA Clusters
- Providing Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines
- vCenter High Availability
- Plan the vCenter HA Deployment
- Configure the Network
- Configure vCenter HA With the Basic Option
- Configure vCenter HA With the Advanced Option
- Manage the vCenter HA Configuration
- Set Up SNMP Traps
- Set Up Your Environment to Use Custom Certificates
- Manage vCenter HA SSH Keys
- Initiate a vCenter HA Failover
- Edit the vCenter HA Cluster Configuration
- Perform Backup and Restore Operations
- Remove a vCenter HA Configuration
- Reboot All vCenter HA Nodes
- Change the Appliance Environment
- Collecting Support Bundles for a vCenter HA Node
- Troubleshoot Your vCenter HA Environment
- Patching a vCenter High Availability Environment
- Using Microsoft Clustering Service for vCenter Server on Windows High Availability
- Index
Respond to Host Isolation
You can set specic responses to host isolation that occurs in your vSphere HA cluster.
This page is editable only if you have enabled vSphere HA.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, browse to the vSphere HA cluster.
2 Click the tab.
3 Select vSphere Availability and click Edit.
4 Click Failures and Responses and expand Response for Host Isolation.
5 To congure the host isolation response, select Disabled, Shut down and restart VMs, or Power
and restart VMs.
6 Click OK.
Your seing for the host isolation response takes eect.
Configure VMCP Responses
Congure the response that VM Component Protection (VMCP) makes when a datastore encounters a PDL
or APD failure.
This page is editable only if you have enabled vSphere HA.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, browse to the vSphere HA cluster.
2 Click the tab.
3 Select vSphere Availability and click Edit.
4 Click Failures and Responses, and expand either Datastore with PDL or Datastore with APD .
5 If you clicked Datastore with PDL, you can set the VMCP failure response for this type of issue, either
Disabled, Issue Events, or Power and restart VMs.
6 If you clicked Datastore with APD, you can set the VMCP failure response for this type of issue, either
Disabled, Issue Events, Power and restart VMs--Conservative restart policy, or Power and
restart VMs--Aggressive restart policy. You can also set Response recovery, which is the number of
minutes that VMCP waits before taking action.
7 Click OK.
Your seings for the VMCP failure response take eect.
Enable VM Monitoring
You can turn on VM and Application Monitoring and also set the monitoring sensitivity for your vSphere
HA cluster.
This page is editable only if you have enabled vSphere HA.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, browse to the vSphere HA cluster.
2 Click the tab.
3 Select vSphere Availability and click Edit.
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