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AbhiVMadmin
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vcenter is down

Hello,

Kindly let me know vcenter is down. What is overall impact on VMware infra?

Vmotion

Svmotion

HA

FT

DRS

DVswitch

If below feature are work or not work kindly provide justification.

Regd

Abhishek

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vijayrana968
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Please refer to below image, each feature is mentioned with YES/NO/DEGRADED functionality in case vCenter isn't available.

in short :

1:-DRS will not work because it requires vCenter up.

2:-HA works because FDM agent uploaded in master/slave hosts is in contnious sync, but we can’t make changes to HA configuration.

3:-FT works for one failure.

4:-Dvswitch works, its configuration is replcated to to etc/vmware/dvswitch.db to each host. but we can’t make changes to dvswitch configuration with vCenter up.

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vijayrana968
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Please refer to below image, each feature is mentioned with YES/NO/DEGRADED functionality in case vCenter isn't available.

in short :

1:-DRS will not work because it requires vCenter up.

2:-HA works because FDM agent uploaded in master/slave hosts is in contnious sync, but we can’t make changes to HA configuration.

3:-FT works for one failure.

4:-Dvswitch works, its configuration is replcated to to etc/vmware/dvswitch.db to each host. but we can’t make changes to dvswitch configuration with vCenter up.

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raghavhere
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Hello Abhi,

Vmotion/SVmotion/DRS( in turn uses vMotion) require vCenter server to be online but FT/HA/DVSwitch doesnt.

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AbhiVMadmin
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Thank you for your valueable reply..

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