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6 Replies Last post: Jun 22, 2009 9:38 AM by RobMokkink  

vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat posted: Jun 2, 2009 10:56 AM

Click to view russ_givens's profile Hot Shot 199 posts since
Jul 28, 2005
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.

Re: vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

1. Jun 2, 2009 11:14 AM in response to: russ_givens
Click to view lamw's profile Champion 2,814 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
If you take a look at vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.1 it supports vSphere and was released on 5/21/09: http://www.vmware.com/support/heartbeat/doc/heartbeat_55_u1_release_notes.html

Here are additional documentation: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/heartbeat_pubs.html

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Re: vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

2. Jun 2, 2009 11:16 AM in response to: russ_givens
Click to view Troy Clavell's profile Guru 6,278 posts since
Oct 12, 2007
Yes.

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 4.0


My opinon is that you need to take care of your DB, which is still the most important part of vCenter.

Re: vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

4. Jun 3, 2009 8:20 AM in response to: russ_givens
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Oct 12, 2007
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Re: vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

5. Jun 22, 2009 9:09 AM in response to: Troy Clavell
Click to view justinking's profile Enthusiast 29 posts since
Apr 4, 2007

Just to add, vCenter Server Heartbeat will protect the vCenter Server components, plugins, licensing etc as well as the vCenter Server databases if housed on a SQL Server. This is if the SQL server is local or on a remote server (provided it isn't clustered),

Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

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

Re: vSphere and vCenter Server Heartbeat

6. Jun 22, 2009 9:38 AM in response to: justinking
Click to view RobMokkink's profile Expert 679 posts since
Jun 7, 2005

We install SQL locallly, our vCenter server has enough horse power to do that. :D

We have never experienced any performance problems what so ever.

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