What is vCenter High Availability? · Ultra Transcenders glossary

Three nodes (Active, Passive, Witness) running vCenter in an active-passive pair, cutting downtime from hardware or host failures and during patching.

Also called vCenter HA.

In the Ultra Transcenders books

2V0-16.25 2V0-15.25 2V0-18.25

Each book explains vCenter High Availability in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

Witness
Nutanix's preferred way of handling metro failures. Decisions are automatic, split brain is avoided, and a lost site is distinguished from a broken network link.
vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.

See vCenter High Availability in the full glossary