High availability in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

One of the most impressive new features that is available as part of vROps 6.0 is the ability to configure the cluster in a HA mode to prevent against data loss. Enabling HA makes two major changes to the Operations Manager cluster:

  • The primary effect of HA is that all the sharded data is duplicated by the controller layer to a primary and backup copy in both the GemFire cache and GemFire persistence layers.
  • The secondary effect is that the master replica is created on a chosen data node for xDB replication of Global xDB. This node is then taken over by the role of the master node in the event that the original master fails.

Operations Manager 6.0 HA design considerations

Although HA is an impressive ...

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