How to Configure VMware High Availability (VMHA)

by David Davis on January 27, 2009

In my latest article at VirtualizationAdmin.com, I show you, step by step, how to configure VMware’s High Availability (VMHA). Make configuring VMHA easy by following the article at How to Configure VMware High Availability (VMHA)

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Maiko 03.31.09 at 12:50 am

Hello,
Can you provide me on how enable the heartbeat monitoring, I tried a HA functionality using a one cluster with 2 host the primary and secondary, when I try to reboot the primary ESX server the VM went down too without a failover. I suspect that the two ESX server were not respond to the heartbeat bcoz of the reb indicator even do they are running.

note: the 2 ESX machine are not the same specs.

David Davis 03.31.09 at 3:23 pm

Hi Maiko,
Did you follow the instructions in the article above and put both ESX hosts in a resource pool and enable HA ?
Even if the other host doesn’t take the VM Guests when the first ESX host dies, the second ESX host should not also fail at the exact same time. Something doesn’t sound right there.
-David

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