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.
With the major differences between the x86 and x64 arhitecture, addional development was required to complete x64 compatibility.
vCenter Server Heartbeat today supports vCenter Server 2.5 base thru update 4 as well as vCenter Server 4.0 all on Windows 2003 X86 only. There will be an update 2 of vCenter Server Heartbeat by the end of the summer which will then support vCenter Server 4.0 on Windows 2003, 2008, x86 and x64.
Hope that helps.
Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/
Hi. We also plan to bring our vCenters to version 4 on W2k3 R2 64bit at end of summer. We would like to use Heartbeat as for for protecting the vCenters.
Justin, can you say if there will be a beta version available of Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 in the near future?
The release has been delayed due to an upcoming update to vCenter Server. The GA of the vCenter Update and vCenter Server Heartbeat Update 2 is now November 19th, 2009.
Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
