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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook This recipe-driven tutorial is the easy way to master VMware vSphere to design a virtual datacenter. You'll learn in simple steps that cover everything from initial groundwork to creating professional design documentation.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782177005

Length 260 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Hersey Cartwright

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. The Virtual Datacenter

2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER

3. The Design Factors

4. The vSphere Management Design

5. The vSphere Storage Design

6. The vSphere Network Design

7. The vSphere Compute Design

8. The vSphere Physical Design

9. The Virtual Machine Design

10. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

11. The Design Documentation

Index

Using vCenter Server Heartbeat to provide vCenter availability

vCenter Server Heartbeat is a separately licensed product available from VMware that provides high availability clustering of VMware vCenter Server. vCenter Server Heartbeat can be used to protect both the vCenter Server components and the vCenter databases from operating system, application, network, and hardware failures. vCenter Server Heartbeat can only be used to protect the vCenter Server deployed on a Windows server. It cannot be used to protect the vCenter Server virtual appliance.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps for using vCenter Server Hearbeat to provide availability:

Identify the use cases for protecting the vCenter Server with vCenter Server Heartbeat.
Understand the architecture of the vCenter Server Heartbeat cluster.

How it works…

vCenter Server Heartbeat provides multiple methods of protection, which include Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Physical-to-Physical (P2P). Protection...