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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Abhilash G B
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7. The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Configuring Heartbeat Datastores

The HA master uses network heartbeats to monitor the liveliness of the slave nodes. It is, however, sometimes possible that a slave node, though isolated from the heartbeat (management) network, could still be running and providing all of the necessary resources to the virtual machines that are running on them. To verify the existence of such a scenario, HA has another type of heartbeat method, called datastore heartbeating.

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure heartbeat datastores.

How to do it...

Heartbeat datastores can be selected when/after enabling vSphere HA on a cluster. The following procedure will help you to configure datastore heartbeating on the cluster:

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