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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
About vSphere Availability
vSphere Availability describes solutions that provide business continuity, including how to establish vSphere
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High Availability (HA) and vSphere Fault Tolerance.
Intended Audience
This information is for anyone who wants to provide business continuity through the vSphere HA and Fault
Tolerance solutions. The information in this book is for experienced Windows or Linux system
administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and data center operations.
Task instructions in this guide are based on the vSphere Web Client. You can also perform most of the tasks
in this guide by using the new vSphere Client. The new vSphere Client user interface terminology, topology,
and workow are closely aligned with the same aspects and elements of the vSphere Web Client user
interface. You can apply the vSphere Web Client instructions to the new vSphere Client unless otherwise
instructed.
N Not all functionality in the vSphere Web Client has been implemented for the vSphere Client in the
vSphere 6.5 release. For an up-to-date list of unsupported functionality, see Functionality Updates for the
vSphere Client Guide at hp://www.vmware.com/info?id=1413.
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