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
Index
A
Active node, functioning 58
admission control
configuring 33
vSphere HA 19
Advanced configuration, vCenter HA 65
affinity rules 41, 45
anti-affinity rules 41
APD 16
application monitoring 31
Application Monitoring 12, 15
Auto Deploy 40
B
best practices
Fault Tolerance 51
vSphere HA clusters 38
vSphere HA networking 38
business continuity 7
C
c 72
cloning nodes 66
cluster settings 28
complete Advanced configuration, vCenter
HA 67
compliance check, Fault Tolerance 47
configure second NIC, vCenter HA 65
configured failover capacity 21
Configured Failover Capacity 19
configuring vSphere HA advanced options 34
creating a vSphere HA cluster 27
current failover capacity 21
Current Failover Capacity 19
current failover hosts 23
D
das.config.fdm.memreservationmb 35
das.config.fdm.reportfailoverfailevent 35
das.heartbeatdsperhost 17, 35
das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore 35
das.iostatsinterval 15, 35
das.isolationaddress 35, 38
das.isolationshutdowntimeout 13, 35
das.maxftvcpusperhost 42
das.maxftvmsperhost 42
das.maxresets 35
das.maxterminates 35
das.reregisterrestartdisabledvms 35
das.reservationrequestretryintervalsec 35
das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules 35
das.slotcpuinmhz 21, 35
das.slotmeminmb 21, 35
das.terminateretryintervalsec 35
das.usedefaultisolationaddress 35
das.vmcpuminmhz 19, 35
das.vmmemoryminmb 35
datastore with APD 31
datastore heartbeating 12, 17
datastore with PDL 31
dedicated failover hosts 23
default gateway 38
degraded vCenter HA cluster 74
Distributed Power Management (DPM) 25
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
using with vSphere Fault Tolerance 45
using with legacy Fault Tolerance 53
using with vSphere HA 25, 26
DNS lookup 27
downtime
planned 7
unplanned 8
DRS Affinity Rules 26
E
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility 45
error messages
Fault Tolerance 41
vSphere HA 11
EVC 45
events and alarms, setting 40
Extended Page Tables (EPT) 44, 53
F
failover hosts 23
Fault Tolerance
anti-affinity rules 41
best practices 51
checklist 45
compliance check 47
continuous availability 9
VMware, Inc. 83