I often speak to people who prefer a virtual machine protected by VMware HA for hosting their vCenter Server instead of using vCenter Server Heartbeat but vCenter Server Heartbeat offers some real great benefits compared to VMware HA. VMware HA only works with virtual machines and protects the operating system and hardware. HA also needs shared storage. vCenter Server Heartbeat is able to clone, synchronize and do real-time replication. vCenter Server Heartbeat works with either virtual machines or physical machines and protects the operating system, the hardware, and the application. You don’t need shared storage but redundant storage. I’ve created a little demo movie showing the vCenter Server Heartbeat console and a real fast switchover to the secondary server.
Monday, 4 January 2010
What’s the benefit of vCenter Server Heartbeat
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Impressive stuff indeed, and worth its money in large deployments where vCenter Server is a "Tier 1" app. Hard to justify the $9.995 (list)price tag (+ SnS, of course) for smaller environments though.
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Lode
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2010-01-04 23:02
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Nice videos Eric. We bought 4 copies of vCenter Heartbeat. Haven't implemented yet though. I've kicked the tires on this product a few times at VMworld labs and it seemed pretty rough... At least an hour just to set up.
Is $9,995US the list price now? Wasn't it $12,500US when it launched? vCenter Server licenses (2 required) are still sold separately correct?
Jas
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Jason Boche
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2010-01-05 04:03
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Jason,
If I'm not mistaken, the $12.500 was/is for the vCenter Server Availability Acceleration Kit (SKU VCHB-AK-PROMO), which includes 1 vCenter Server license and 1 vCenter Server Heartbeat license.
I thought a secondary vCenter Server license was not required, only a secondary Windows OS license. (See the last slide of VM2674.)
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Lode
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2010-01-05 09:20
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You only need one vCenter and vCenter heartbeat license per server pair.
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Rob Mokkink
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2010-01-05 21:37
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I cannot justify the cost of Heartbeat server for my environment 1000 VMs.
Burak
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Burak Uysal
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2010-10-29 11:53
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