Launching the High Availability Configuration wizard

You can launch the High Availability Configuration wizard from:

You must launch the High Availability Configuration wizard from the system where the disk residing on the shared datastore is attached.

To launch the wizard from the VMware vSphere Client

  1. Launch the VMware vSphere Client and connect to the VMware vCenter Server that hosts the virtual machine.
  2. From the vSphere Client's Inventory view in the left pane, select the virtual machine where you want to configure application monitoring.
  3. Skip this step if you have already configured single sign-on during guest installation.

    Select the High Availability tab and in the High Availability View page, specify the credentials of a user account that has administrative privileges on the virtual machine and click Configure.

    The High Availability console sets up a permanent authentication for the user account on that virtual machine.

  4. Depending on your setup, use one of the following options to launch the wizard:
    • If you have not configured a cluster, click the Configure application for high availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster, click Actions > Configure application for high availability or the Configure application for high availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster and configured an application for monitoring, click Actions > Configure application for high availability.

To launch the wizard from a browser window

  1. Open a browser window and enter the following URL:
    https://<VMNameorIP>:5634/vcs/admin/application_health.html

    <VMNameorIP> is the virtual machine name or IP address of the system on which you want to configure application monitoring.

  2. In the Authentication dialog box, enter the username and password of the user who has administrative privileges.
  3. Depending on your setup, use one of the following options to launch the wizard:
    • If you have not configured a cluster, click the Configure application for high availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster, click Actions > Configure application for high availability or the Configure application for high availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster and configured an application for monitoring, click Actions > Configure application for high availability.