Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Planning vCenter HA to increase vCenter availability

VCHA is a feature that uses a three-node cluster to protect the vCenter Server from hardware, operating system, or application failures. The three nodes are referred to as active, passive, and witness. VCHA only supports VCSA deployments, not vCenter on Windows, and both embedded and external PSCs are supported. It's important to note that if used with external PSCs, VCHA is not protecting the PSCsonly the vCenter Server itself. Load balanced PSCs would be needed to provide high availability to external PSCs. Keep in mind that it likely doesn't make sense to use vCenter HA if you're not also using load-balanced PSCs, since the idea is to create a highly available management plane.

VCHA is useful when you want to increase vCenter's uptime and you don't necessarily want to only rely on vSphere...