VHB 6.4 WAN in Production? Anyone doing it?

[jslarouche]

Hey all,

Are many of you using vHeartbeat in Production in a WAN install? I've rolled this product out into our development environment and i am finding the product to be a little flaky/buggy.. With nics setting their settings to 169. IP when i reboot servers and such. I have to monkey around a lot to get this to re-sync.. Are many of you using this product in production and are happy with it? Do you find it very stable?

[MatthewShort]

Hi There

I have setup this up in a WAN configuration (distance of about 500km).  vCenter server with Seperate SQL server, both instances vCenter and SQL are virtual machines.  All runs fine.  I just do not use auto-failover as stated in the guide for a WAN setup.  I have tested switchovers and switchbacks.   It has worked fine.  If you have any specific Setup questions, please feel free to ask.

[admin]

Hello Matthew,

I'm the Product Manager for vCSHB and would love to pass your best practices along to our techpub for consideration into a refreshed 6.5 Admin Guide (fall release). Is it possible we can see what you've learned, and what's lacking in the product documentation around WAN deployments?

Regards,

Donna Reineck

dreineck@vmware.com

[admin]

The WAN deployment documentation have all be refreshed in the coming release. You'll find we don't recommend enabling automatic failover.  Good thing you didn't pay attention to the docs!  I don't have specific questions, I'm the Product Manager for Heartbeat, and I'm curious as to how many of our customers deploy LAN (vLAN local, and stretched), and WAN. Thanks!