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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 vCenter Native High Availability

vCenter Native High Availability (vCHA) is certainly one of the most awaited features of vSphere 6.5. Until now, there have been a slew of features that were enabled by the vCenter but not for the vCenter. In this recipe, we shall discuss configuring vCHA.

Getting ready

This feature works with a standard vCenter license and work with vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 embedded or external PSC. A minimum of three ESXi hosts are needed. You will also need to configure a separate network/portgroup that is different from the management network to configure the vCHA network.

How to do it...

Log in to vCenter with the appropriate privileges. Navigate to Home | Host and Clusters.
Click on your specific vCenter | vCenter HA. Click on Configure as depicted in the following screenshot:

Choose the Basic option.
Provide a unique IP address for the Passive Node and the Witness Node, and click Next as depicted in the following screenshot: