Veritas Clustering

[rus1209]

Hi, has anyone successfully manged to design a Veritas cluster which will provide HA for vCenter? The nodes will also be physical boxes and not VM's.

A few of us are working on a solution and it appears that we will have to install vCenter on each of the nodes and configure them to be identical but we need to investigate what needs to go in the veritas service group?

Another concern is how does SSL work with 2 nodes in a cluster?

Appreciate all help, thanks.

[sabya1232003]

Sounds a very interesting ..not heard much about this kind of setup.Would love to know your result... :smileyblush:

As per my understanding for Veritas cluster there has to be 2 nodes with equal OS/Haware/patches as base.the service groups can be vCenter application,Vcenter Database (one of the key resouce in service group which need 100% HA) 1 more thing you may have to keep in mind is the vCenter license as you have to use 1 Lic

All the Best and keep posting the status ...

[AndreTheGiant]

With the last version of vCenter only VMware Heartbeat (and VMware HA, if vCenter runs in a VM) are supported.

And the VM cluster document (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf) is only for MSCS or Failover Cluster.

So you can try by using this document or, if you have iSCSI, use guest iSCSI to simplify the configuration.

See also:

Andre

[meistermn]

Would it better to use VMWare Heartbeat ?

From my perspective my prefered solution is to build two vm's, one for the vcenter and one for the vcenter db. Then use VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat for ha and dr.

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

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat delivers high availability and disaster recovery for VMware vCenter Server and all of its components across the LAN or WAN, including the database and licensing server and plug-ins like VMware vCenter Update Manager, eliminating costly, complex outages. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat protects and recovers the VMware vCenter Server database instance, even if it’s installed on a separate server.