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vCenter High Availability for vSphere 8

vCenter High Availability for vSphere 8 - vSphere Tutorial

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vCenter High Availability for vSphere 8

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn how vCenter High Availability can be used to provide availability for the vCenter Server Appliance. So here's how vCenter Server High Availability basically works. You have one active vCenter instance, and that's the vCenter instance that's really doing all of the work. So when we connect to our vCenter instance, we're going to connect to the active vCenter instance. So here in our diagram, we see the active vCenter instance. This is the vCenter Server Appliance instance that actually works. It's got an IP address associated with the management interface, and it uses this vCenter High Availability network to replicate the current configuration to two other nodes in our environment: a passive node and the witness note. Now, the passive node is a clone of this active vCenter. So when I configure vCenter High Availability, this clone of my vCenter Server Appliance is created, and from that moment forward, it constantly receives updates and synchronizes…

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