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
NAS 45
NFS 45
Storage DRS 40
Storage vMotion 7, 40, 43
suspending, Fault Tolerance 50
Symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) 44
symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) virtual
machines 53
T
TCP port 18
test failover, Fault Tolerance 50
test restart secondary, Fault Tolerance 51
tolerating host failures 21
transparent failover 9, 41
turning off, Fault Tolerance 49
U
UDP port 18
unplanned downtime 8
upgrading for MSCS high availability 79
upgrading hosts with FT virtual machines 51
use cases, Fault Tolerance 42
V
VADP backups 53
validation checks 48
vCenter HA
advanced deployment 66
backup 71
basic deployment 64
certificate setup 69
clone operation problem 74
cluster failures 75
configuration 59
deployment failure 74
edit a cluster configuration 70
initiate a failover 70
operating modes 60
planning deployment 58
reboot all nodes 72
restore 71
small environment 73
SNMP traps 69
SSH keys 70
support bundles 73
troubleshooting 73
vCenter Server Appliance high availability 61
vCenter HA configuration
advanced 65
managing 68
vCenter HA network configuration 63
vCenter High Availability Overview 10
vCenter Server high availability 57
VCHA 77
virtual machine overrides 37
virtual machine protection 12, 17
virtual machine restarts 13
Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown
feature 27
VM Component Protection 16, 26–28, 31, 43
VM monitoring 31
VM Monitoring 12, 15
VM resource reduction threshold 19
VM-VM affinity rules 23
vm.uselegacyft 53
VMCP 16, 26–28, 31, 43
VMDK 45, 53
VMFS 17, 38
VMware Tools 15
vpxd.das.completemetadataupdateintervalsec
35
vpxuser user account 18
vSAN 17, 24, 26, 40
vSAN datastores 51
vSAN stretched clusters 24
vSphere HA
advantages 8
checklist 27
cluster settings 27
configuring cluster settings 29
error messages 11
monitoring 40
recovery from outages 8
vSphere HA cluster
admission control 19
best practices 38
creating 27, 28, 47
master host 12, 17
planning 11
slave host 12
vSphere HA interoperability 24
vSphere HA architecture 11
vSphere HA heartbeat datastores 33
vSphere HA networking
best practices 38
path redundancy 38
vSphere HA response to failures 30
W
Witness node, functioning 58
Index
VMware, Inc. 85