Does your vCenter have a Heartbeat?

With more and more enterprises deploying mission-critical workloads on VMware, enterprises need a comprehensive, easy-to-implement and easy-to-use mechanism for monitoring, replicating and protecting vCenter Server. Maintaining high availability for vCenter Server gives customers continuous access to important functions and critical information about their virtual and cloud infrastructure. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat extends the protection available in VMware High Availability (HA), adding protection against network, software and entire site failures. vCenter Heartbeat will also support failover for instances of vCenter Server installed on physical servers.

Heartbeat delivers high availability and disaster recovery for vCenter Server and all of its components—including the database and licensing server—with failover across the LAN or WAN. The software supports physical- to-virtual (P2V), physical-to-physical (P2P) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) failover, ensuring consistent operation of vSphere when vCenter Server is threatened by unplanned or planned downtime. The software monitors vCenter and provides the broadest range of protection against application or operator errors, operating system or hardware failure, or external events. vCenter Heartbeat is easy to install and configure. The software has no hardware configuration dependencies and automatically detects standard vCenter Server components upon installation for instant monitoring and protection.