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CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability

You can enable CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability in your virtual environment through VMware High Availability (VMware HA). CA User Activity Reporting Module supports the VMware HA features except Fault Tolerance.

The following are the advantages of enabling CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability:

• Physical failure of an ESX server does not affect the installation and configuration of the ESX server, as the failed ESX server is automatically restarted on other ESX servers in the virtual environment cluster.
• Data loss is minimal allowing CA User Activity Reporting Module to seamlessly collect most of the generated events.

Prerequisites

Before you enable CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability, verify that you have performed the following tasks in your virtual environment:

1. Installed a minimum of two ESX 4.0 servers.
2. Installed VMware vCenter 4.0 to manage the ESX servers.
3. Configured a Network File System (NFS) as a VMware HA datastore.
4. Created a CA User Activity Reporting Module server using a virtual machine or a virtual appliance on the ESX 4.0 servers.
5. Mounted the CA User Activity Reporting Module server on the NFS partition.

Enable CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability

Perform the following procedure to enable CA User Activity Reporting Module High Availability.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Start, All Programs, VMware vSphere Client on the computer where VMware vSphere Client is installed.

   The VMware vSphere Client dialog opens.

2. Enter the IP address or host name of the VMware vCenter Server you want to connect in the IP address/Name field.
3. Enter the login credentials in the User name and Password fields, and click Logon.

   The application window opens.

4. Select the cluster for which you want to set High Availability under a Datacenter in the left pane.
5. Right-click on the cluster, and select Edit Settings.

   The <clustername> Settings dialog appears. By default, the Cluster Features details are displayed in the dialog.

6. Select Turn on VMware HA, and click OK.