vRA Manager Service Automatic Failover

You can configure the vRealize Automation IaaS Manager Service to fail over to a backup when the primary Manager Service stops.

Starting in vRealize Automation 7.3, you no longer have to manually start or stop the Manager Service on each Windows server, to control which serves as primary or backup. Automatic Manager Service failover is enabled by default in the following cases.

• When you install vRealize Automation silently or with the Installation Wizard.
• When you upgrade IaaS through the administration interface or with the automatic upgrade script.

 Failover is not enabled when you use the standard Windows-based installer to add a Manager Service host or upgrade IaaS.

To enable automatic Manager Service failover after running the standard Windows installer, take the following steps.

Procedure

• Log in as root to a console session on the vRealize Automation appliance.
• Navigate to the following directory.
• /usr/lib/vcac/tools/vami/commands
• Enter the following command.
• python ./manager-service-automatic-failover ENABLE

If you need to disable automatic failover throughout an IaaS deployment, enter the following command instead.

python ./manager-service-automatic-failover DISABLE