So to change the secondary PSC to the Master PSC, I ran this simple command on the VCSA appliance. When I ran the showservers and showpartnerstatus command on the secondary, it confirmed that the server was down and no replication was taking place. Needless to say, I could no longer login into vCenter.
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Now that some of the basics are known I simulated an outage of the Primary PSC. VMware Appliance Management Service (only in Appliance-based PSC) What exactly is being replicated between the PSC’s However, under certain conditions, this replication time can be increased in order for all PSCs to fully synchronize. What is the interval period between PSC to PSC Replication – The replication interval between two PSCs is 30 seconds. usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcrepadmin -f showservers -h localhost -u administrator usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcrepadmin -f showpartnerstatus -h localhost -u administrator
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How can I tell how many PSCs are present and what are the replication status between my primary PSC’s and other PSC’s deployed within my environment? The /usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin folder is packed full of different utilities to help you out. I used the replication admin tool to get the below detail. But if you are unable to tell you simply need to check these advanced settings of your vCenter. Which PSC is my master PSC? – It was pretty simple for me to tell which was the master as I had just deployed the VMs.
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So I spun up a small VC environment within my Lab with the intention of simulating a loss of a PSC.īut in researching the topic, I found that I had many more questions that I needed to answer or clear up for myself. But I was curious how easy that procedure was and in what scenarios could that fail over be completed successfully.
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Of course, this was all theory as I never had reason to completed that operation. I explained that there is replication between both PSC’s and in the event of the primary PSC failing that with a simple CLI command that all services could be restored on the second PSC. A Colleague recently asked me that was the reason in configuring two PSCs with our management environment as they are not fully redundant without a load balancer sitting in front of them in a multi PSC deployment.