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Server Heartbeat and Windows 2008 64-BIT

russ_givens — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:18:50 GMT

I was planning on a future purchase Server Heartbeat but it appears from the Server Heartbeat pdf that it isn't support on Windows 2008 64-BIT yet. It isn't even support on 2003 64-BIT yet. My plans were to bring my vCenter server up to 2008 64-BIT this week and then plan in my budget for next year to get Server Heartbeat. Has anybody run Server Heartbeat on 2008 64-BIT or is there any plans for VMware to bring the application into a supportable state for Windows 2008 64-BIT.

Upgrading HB 5.5 U1 to U2

Itzikr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:19 GMT

Hi,
whats the best way to upgrade 5.5 U1 to U2, does the upgrade needs to be done on the secondary server as well..
in addition to that..whats the upgrade steps if i also want to upgrade vCenter 4 to 4 U1

Itzik

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 Release

justinking — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:15 GMT

Available for download this evening!!

h1. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 Release Notes

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2| XX OCTOBER 2009| Build 3117

Last Document Update: XX OCTOBER 2009

Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat provides protection for the following products:

vCenter Server 2.5
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 1
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 2
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 3
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 4
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5
vCenter Server 4.0
vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1

These release notes include the following topics:

What's New

Learning about vCenter Server Heartbeat

Prior Releases of vCenter Server Heartbeat

Before You Begin

Known Issues

Resolved Issues

What's New

The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2.

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Note: The features available depend on the version of vCenter Server installed.

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Features*

Support for Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (x86/x64) â€" VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat now supports running on Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (including x86 and x64 versions) operating systems.

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Support for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) â€" VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat now supports running on the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) operating system.

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Protection of VMware vCenter Management Web Services â€" This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat adds the vCenter Management Web Server to its list of protected vCenter Server components.

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Introduction of the WinZip Self-Extracting executable file for Setup â€" Installation and setup of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat is initiated through the use of a WinZip Self-Extracting executable file.

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60-day evaluation mode â€" This release of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat provides a built-in 60-day evaluation mode that is triggered from the date of installation. Either prior to or upon expiration of the 60-day evaluation period, administrators will need to provide a valid license key to continue to leverage VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat functionality.

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Tomcat Monitoring Rule â€" A new rule has been added for vCenter 4.0 Tomcat Web Server availability.

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Note: The term vSphere Client is applicable to both vSphere Client and VI Client except where VI Client is specifically stated.

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Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/

Latest Version of Heartbeat

jkasal — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:58:27 GMT

Word on the street is that the latest version of heartbeat was suppose to be released today? Is that true?

Also, what is the version #, 5.5 up2?

what will be replicated from the 2nd server to the primary one..

Itzikr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:38:28 GMT

Hi,

what wil happen in the following scenario:

1. the primary server fails and the secondary takes over..

2. the secondary server is running for one month..

3. during this month, it's being updated with new:

A. MS hotfixes

B. new applications

will these be replicated to the primary server ?

the reason asking is that i happen to have a secondary server that had a CA agent installed on but wasn't installed on the primary server..ive done a failover to the secondary server...but this CA agent was never replicated to the primary one altough ive done a a full registry check..

also, how do i monitor the two nodes for hardware failure (assuming i have an enterprise monitoring software already in place)

Itzik Reich

Solutions Architect

VCP,VTSP,MCTS,MCITP,MCSE,CCA,CCNA

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configuring heartbeat in a p2p enviornment

Itzikr — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:33:15 GMT

Hi,

when installing heartbeat 5.5 u1 in a p2p enviornment..

do i need to manually install vcenter4 on the two nodes or a windows os will be sufficient and then after installing vcenter4 on one node, i should follow it by installing heartbeat and do a restore to the other physical node where i didnt install vcenter yet,

also, can i install the nodes in a domain enviornment??

Itzik Reich

Solutions Architect

VCP,VTSP,MCTS,MCITP,MCSE,CCA,CCNA

EMC²

where Information Lives

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

Experiences conversion program Neverfail Hearthbeat to VMware vCenter Hearthbeat

RobMokkink — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:42:57 GMT

I am curious if anyone has any experience with the conversion program, to switch from Neverfail Heartbeat to Vmware vCenter Hearthbeat?

Difference between vCenter Linked Mode and vCenter Heartbeat

AdrianoOliveira — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:16:31 GMT

I´d like to know the difference between vcenter linked mode and vCenter Heartbeat, and related do heartbeat how many SQL license do I need to buy?

Composer Service

arjanhs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:13:38 GMT

Will the Server Heartbeat service handle the View Composer service when doing a failover, or will only the plugins included in vCenter being used in the failover?

Info database

frauno — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:16:06 GMT

Hi

I'd like to know if virtualcenter hearbeat support sql database on a storage area network disk.

Thanks

heartbeat over WAN - how to setup the remote servers?

ESX-Q — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:59:53 GMT

currently my vi3 env is: (700 vm)

physical VC ver 2.5

SQL on a separate machine - actually on Microsoft Cluster also Physical (64 bit)

my goal is to upgrade the env to vSphere and to use VC heartbeat on a DR remote site.

I know that heartbeat currently does not support 64 bit and also not cluster.

so i"m thinking of creating a parallel VC (version 4) as a VM (so i willl be able to clone it easly to the DR)

and to create the SQL DB on a physical non cluster, 32 bit. (or maybe it will be ok as a VM?)

now I need to know how to setup the remote servers in the DR,

I will clone the VC, but how can the heartbeat of the sec NIC should be set? as if i"ll put gateway etc...than the VC name will probably have a conflict (if it was on LAN than I could use a point to point with no gateway but how to do it over wan?)

also how to set the remote SQL? should I clone it as well? (i kbow that I will have to run the setup on the 4 servers)

another thing, the recommandation of vmware is to put the update manager on a different server than the VC...so is that means that I should/can clone that server to the DR too? and can I install the heardbeat on that one too? (meaning 6 installations ?)

TIA

vCS Heartbeat supports VMware vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5

justinking — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:29:36 GMT

I can confirm that VMware vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5 is fully supported with the current version of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 U1 (Latest Version: 5.5 Update 1 | 2009/05/21 | Build: 2254)

Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/

How many of What Part is Needed

dgoldsmith — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:04:05 GMT

Looking at the web site, its not obvious what is needed to set up a functioning vCenter Server with Heartbeat in terms of purchasing licenses.

vCenter Server is roughly $5k. vCenter Server Server Heartbeat for 1 vCenter Server is roughly $10K.

Is the Server Heartbeat add-on the only extra purchase required or do you need to purchase 2 vCenter Server licenses and 2 vCenter Server Heartbeat licenses?

If 2 of each are required, that moves your vCenter Server cost from $5K to $30K. Is there really a six-fold advantage over doing vCenter Server as a VM and using VMware HA or VMware FT to minimize/eliminate outages of the management server?

Thanks,
David Goldsmith

Heartbeat over WAN connection

Nautilus — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:57 GMT

do i HAVE to use seperate IP subnet for public and channel connection.

I want to configure with following parameter

Site1 Heartbeat 10.10.10.1 *Channe*l 10.10.10.2

Site2 Heartbeat 192.168.1.1 *Channe*l192.168.1.2

Is this configuration ok ?

Kind regards

Nautilus

vCenter Heartbeat Memory Pages / Sec value Exceeded

jkasal — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:43:36 GMT

Hey Community,

I am receiving the following error...

"VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Application Warning. This happened at Mon Jul 20 11:13:01 CDT 2009 on the Primary SVCTEST-OLA01 while Active. Further information if available: Rule Triggered: Memory Pages / Sec value exceeded". When this error is triggered, replication seems to hang and is difficult to get back going. I need to restart Heartbeat on both servers to get it back going again. This happens several times a day

VMware vCenter server/ Heartbeat are running in a V2V environment. Each VM has 4 GB of Ram, 1 vCPU, C:\ 16 GB (OS), D:\ 12 (DB Data), E:\ 20 GB (VUM). The VMDKs of the Primary are sitting on an 8 disk Raid 10 FC LUN on a CX700 (LUN as Moderate peak usage). The secondary is sitting on a LUN of similar specs except on a CX500.

The real Kicker is that this environment is entirely a test environment and has no load. Only one test host is registered with this vCenter. No VMs are registered. This is a WAN deployment accross a VPN from a datacenter in the Central Time zone to a datacenter in the Pacific time zone.

Anyone have any ideas what may be causing this error? Could this be related to only 1 vCPU on the VM?

Thanks,

Jkasal

Heartbeat evaluation

jbruelasdgo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:32:21 GMT

is it possible to evaluate Heartbeat??

vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

russ_givens — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:56:28 GMT

Is vCenter Server Heartbeat going to be compabile with vSphere? The pdf for Server Heartbeat doesn't indicate compatibility with vSphere. I'm looking into creating a case in my company to add some redundancy for what will be my future vSphere server and would like to know if vCenter Server Heartbeat would be the option to persue.

virtual machine heartbeat delay

MickMcLovin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:55:13 GMT

I have a cluster of 14 hosts with 150+ VMs. The VC is 2.5 U2 and the hosts 3.5 U2. I have enabled an alarm to alert when a VM heartbeat is lost. The problem being is that if the VM is under load it may occassionally lose heartbeats and trigger the alarm. If I edit the file /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml and set the heartbeatDelayInSecs tag under vmsvc to 0 seconds as below:
<vmsvc>
<heartbeatDelayInSecs>#</heartbeatDelayInSecs>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</vmsvc>

Will this delay the heartbeat alarm triggers?

Also VM monitoring is not enabled at the cluster level.