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
Configure MSCS for High Availability
Use the following steps to set up Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) as an availability solution for
vCenter Server.
Prerequisites
n
Create a virtual machine (VM) with one of the following guest operating systems:
n n
Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter
n
Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter
n
Add two raw device mapping (RDM) disks to this VM. These disks must be mounted when they are
added and the RDM disks must also be independent and persistent.
n
Create a separate SCSI controller with the bus sharing option set to physical.
N Since this conguration uses a SCSI controller with the Bus Sharing option set to Physical,
backup and restore is not supported. You must to use a host-based agent for backup or restore.
n
Set the Virtual Device Node to newly created SCSI controller 1.
n
Open the MSCS drive and create two folders: one for VC data and another for VC installation.
n
Install a Platform Services Controller instance before you install vCenter Server and provide its FQDN
during the installation.
Figure 5‑1. MSCS Cluster for vCenter Server High Availability
vCenter Server
Infrastructure Node
(VM1)
N1
vCenter Server
Infrastructure Node
(VM 2)
N2
vCenter Server
Management Node
(VM1)
M1
vCenter Server
Management Node
(VM2)
M1
MSCS Cluster
SQL Server DB
(VM2)
Node2
SQL Server DB
(VM1)
Node1
MSCS Cluster
N MSCS as an availability solution for vCenter Server is provided only for management nodes of
vCenter Server (M node). For infrastructure nodes, customers must deploy multiple N nodes for high
availability. You cannot have M and N nodes on the same VM for MSCS protection.
Procedure
1 Power on the VM.
2 Format the two RDM disks, assign them drive leers, and convert them to MBR.
3 Using Windows > Server Manager > Features, install .net.
4 Install vCenter Server on one of the RDM disks and set the start option to manual.
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