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Figure 9.
Heartbeat Datastores Information
Clicking the Heartbeat Datastores tab will display information about the datastores that were selected as
heartbeat datastores. Heartbeat datastores allow a secondary means of communication between the hosts in
case of a loss of the management network. By selecting a particular datastore, you will display a list of all the
hosts that are using the selected datastore as a heartbeat datastore.
Click
OK
to exit the cluster status screen.