To configure a VCHA cluster, only a single vCenter license is requested (a Standard license is sufficient) and both external PSC (vCenter and PSC installed on different VMs) and embedded PSC (vCenter and PSC reside on the same VM) deployment models are supported.
To enable VCHA, it is recommended that you select a time period with a low workload to avoid PostgreSQL DB issues in the passive node.
The VCHA architecture is composed of three main components:
- Active node: Runs the vCenter Server active instance serving the client requests.
- Passive node: Runs as the passive instance of the vCenter Server receiving state updates from the active node in synchronous mode constantly. If the active ...
