Here I am going to show you how to enable the "basic" vCenter HA option across multiple clusters. Why do this across multiple clusters? Easy...increase the availability of my vCenter HA instance. Could I enable this in a single cluster if I had to? Sure. If you are limited to a single cluster and want … Continue reading Basic vCenter HA with Multiple Clusters
A couple months ago I posted a 5-part series for configuring and enabling vCenter HA using an external PSC and load balancer. Very effective solution for anyone looking to enhance vCenter availability in their environment. What about those customers who are taking advantage of VMware NSX and want to utilize the NSX load balancer for … Continue reading Configure vCenter HA using the NSX Load Balancer
I have been looking forward to doing this for some time now. I could not perform this upgrade because my INITECH lab environment was running NSX 6.2.4 which is not compatible with vSphere 6.5...but I upgraded to NSX 6.3 in my previous blog article. I am very happy how that upgrade turned out. So the … Continue reading Upgrade to vCenter 6.5
So here we go...the final phase of enabling vCenter HA in our vSphere 6.5 environment. To quickly recap what we have done thus far. We have deployed our two external PSC appliances, configured the certificates as well as the load balancer to service them. In the previous step (Part 4) we deployed vCenter Server and … Continue reading vCenter 6.5 High Availability – Enable vCenter HA (Part 5)
This is Part 4 of the multi-series for deploying and configuring vCenter 6.5 High Availability. Up to this point we have accomplished the following... Deployed two External Platform Service Controller (PSC) appliances. Configured our custom Certificates for the PSC appliances. Deployed our Network Load Balancer and configured it to provide HA for the two PSC … Continue reading vCenter 6.5 High Availability – Deploy vCenter (Part 4)
Here in Part 3 of the vCenter HA 6.5 multi-series we will configure the load balancer that will provide a layer of redundancy between the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances that were deployed in configured in Part 2. There are three load balancer's summarized in KB Article 2147018 from VMware. NSX Edge Load … Continue reading vCenter 6.5 High Availability – Load Balancer Config (Part 3)
Here in Part 2 of the multi-part series for vCenter Server 6.5 HA we will deploy the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances. The PSCs will be serviced (load balanced) by a 3rd party load balancer. In a real world deployment the load balancer could be a virtual or physical appliance. Which type should … Continue reading vCenter 6.5 High Availability – External PSC Deployment (Part 2)
This is Part 1 of a multi-series where we will review the steps required to deploy and configure the new vCenter Server 6.5 High Availability (Native HA) solution. This is exclusive to the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance). I've been looking forward to a high availability solution for vCenter for a long time now. I cannot count … Continue reading vCenter 6.5 High Availability – Overview (Part 1)
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