How the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client works with VCS


How the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client works with VCS
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The following diagram illustrates how the Veritas HA Plug-In for vSphere Web Client is deployed in a VMware virtual environment to support Cluster Server (VCS) tasks.

Figure: Deployment diagram

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The Veritas HA Plug-In for vSphere Web Client supports the high availability mode of the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server (primary and secondary nodes). The plug-in also simultaneously supports multiple vCenter Servers. For simplicity, these components are not illustrated in the above diagram. Also, while the vSphere Web client support exists for multiple-node VCS clusters, for simplicity a single-node cluster of VCS is illustrated in this diagram.

The Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client is distributed as an add-on for the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server.

You must first install the add-on on the management server. You must also register the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client with all the required vCenter servers. As a result, the Veritas High Availability tab is inserted in the vSphere Web Client GUI.

If you add the VCS guests (virtual machines) to Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server as managed hosts, the management server discovers the health status of the applications monitored by VCS. The Management Server relays this information to the vCenter Server. This information is displayed in the Veritas High Availability tab of the vSphere Web Client.

Inside the Monitor tab of the vSphere Web Client, the Veritas High Availability tab is inserted. If you navigate to a virtual machine in the Web Client, and click Veritas High Availability tab, the Veritas High Availability View displays health information for the monitored application running on that virtual machine.

Similarly, if you navigate to an ESX cluster or datacenter, and click the tab, the Veritas High Availability Dashboard displays aggregate health information for all the monitored applications running in that cluster or datacenter.

You can perform application administration tasks from both the views. This includes starting and stopping the monitored applications, among other tasks. For details, see the Veritas High Availability Solution Guide for VMware.