VMware vCenter HeartBeat

In this document, we'll look at installing and configuring VMware vCenter Heartbeat, this product allows us to obtain high availability of our VMware vCenter server in environments where it is critical, allowing application-level protection at all times, services, SQL Server if on-premises, Update Manager or if we have VMware View protecting it for use with VMware Composer. With this product we will have two vCenter servers, A primary one (active) and a secondary one (passive) where we can manually change roles (switchover) or in the event of a fall (failover) We will have high availability since the information is continuously replicated through a private network, This drop could be at the hardware level, S.O., Network Issues, vCenter application crashes or their dependencies.