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HI Luke,
Great website and thanks for your contributions!
I came across your comment on YB regarding an article from 2012 about vCenter HB and HA.
Your comment reads:
“I use both. To protect vCenter within the 4-wall datacenter, it’s HA. For DR purposes, it’s Heartbeat.
I run active/active datacenters where a single production vCenter running in DC-1 manages both physical sites, and a second vCenter for SRM runs in DC-2 managing the other half of both physical sites. I need both vCenters accessible in the event of an outage at either datacenter.
This is where Heartbeat comes in, if I lose DC-1, I can activate the secondary Heartbeat vCenter in DC-2 so it can manage the production space at DC-2, while SRM talks to the second vCenter to bring up the failed DC-1′s production VMs.”
I had a very similar setup except that I wont be implmenting Heatbeat as our vCenter does not have such high SLA.
When time permits could you provide some additioanl info on your setup more so how HA works in your case?
Thanks much!
-Mujeeb