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
5 To instruct vSphere HA about how to select the datastores and how to treat your preferences, select
from the following options.
Table 2‑3.
Datastore Heartbeating Options
Automatically select datastores accessible from the host
Use datastores only from the list
Use datastores from the list and complement automatically if needed
6 In the Available heartbeat datastores pane, select the datastores that you want to use for heartbeating.
The listed datastores are shared by more than one host in the vSphere HA cluster. When a datastore is
selected, the lower pane displays all the hosts in the vSphere HA cluster that can access it.
7 Click OK.
Set Advanced Options
To customize vSphere HA behavior, set advanced vSphere HA options.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have cluster administrator privileges.
N Because these options aect the functioning of vSphere HA, change them with caution.
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 Advanced Options.
5 Click Add and type the name of the advanced option in the text box.
You can set the value of the option in the text box in the Value column.
6 Repeat step 5 for each new option that you want to add and click OK.
The cluster uses the options that you added or modied.
What to do next
Once you have set an advanced vSphere HA option, it persists until you do one the following:
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Using the vSphere Web Client, reset its value to the default value.
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Manually edit or delete the option from the fdm.cfg le on all hosts in the cluster.
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