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what will be replicated from the 2nd server to the primary one.. posted: Nov 2, 2009 10:22 PM

Click to view Itzikr's profile Enthusiast 88 posts since
Nov 18, 2008
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

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Click to view justinking's profile Enthusiast 32 posts since
Apr 4, 2007
the heartbeat application will maintain the application data, configuration etc between both nodes, anything outside of this (OS patches, CA agent etc) will need to be manually done on both servers. The solution only mirrors the application not the entire server.

hope that helps





Justin King
Product Specialist - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

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

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