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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Configuring VM monitoring

vSphere HA can be configured to monitor virtual machines, so that unresponsive VMs can be restarted (reset). This is achieved by enabling VM monitoring on the HA cluster. You can also enable application monitoring. This will restart a VM if the VMware Tools application heartbeats are not received within a predefined timeout value. This is not to be confused with the host monitoring itself and is independent. This feature helps in cases where a virtual machine has hung and typically requires being restarted.

How to do it...

The following procedure outlines how VM monitoring can be configured:

Log in to the vSphere Web Client with the relevant privileges. Navigate to the specific cluster | Configuration | vSphere Availability.
Click on Failures and Responses | VM Monitoring shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

Virtual machine monitoring uses VMware Tools to send heartbeats to the host its running on. If a heartbeat is not received within the configured threshold...