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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
2 For the rst clone, which will become the Passive node, enter the following values.
Option Value
New Virtual Machine Name
Name of the Passive node. For example, use vcsa-peer.
Select Compute Resource
Select Storage
Use a dierent target host and datastore than for the Active node if
possible.
Clone Options
Select the Customize the operating system and Power on virtual machine
after creation check boxes and click the New Customization Spec icon on
the next page.
In the New Customization Spec wizard that appears specify the following.
a Use the same host name as the Active node.
b Ensure the timezone is consistent with the Active node. Keep the same
AreaCode/Location with UTC as the Active node. If you have not
specied AreaCode/Location with UTC while conguring the Active
node, keep London in AreaCode/Location during cloning. London has
0.00 oset, so it keeps the clock to UTC without any oset.
c On the Congure Network page, specify the IP seings for NIC1 and
NIC2, which map to the management interface and the vCenter HA
interface. Leave the NIC2 Default Gateway blank.
3 After the rst clone has been created, clone the Active node again for the Witness node.
Option Value
New Virtual Machine Name
Name of the Witness node. For example, use vcsa-witness.
Select Compute Resource
Select Storage
Use a dierent target host and datastore than for the Active and Passive
nodes if possible.
Clone Options
Select the Customize the operating system and Power on virtual machine
after creation check boxes and click the New Customization Spec icon on
the next page.
In the New Customization Spec wizard that appears specify the following.
a Use the host name of your choice.
b Ensure the timezone is consistent with the Active node. Keep the same
AreaCode/Location with UTC as the Active node. If you have not
specied AreaCode/Location with UTC while conguring the Active
node, keep London in AreaCode/Location during cloning. London has
0.00 oset, so it keeps the clock to UTC without any oset.
c On the Congure Network page, specify the IP seings for NIC2,
which maps to the vCenter HA interface. Leave the NIC2 Default
Gateway blank.
4 Ensure that the clone process completes and the virtual machines are powered on.
What to do next
Return to the vCenter HA wizard on the Active node to complete the setup. See “Complete the vCenter HA
Advanced Conguration,” on page 67.
Complete the vCenter HA Advanced Configuration
After you create the Passive and Witness nodes, return to the conguration wizard on the Active node to
complete the conguration.
Prerequisites
Complete the process of cloning the Active node to a Passive node and a Witness node.
Procedure
1 Return to the conguration wizard and click Finish.
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