Comments on: How to Configure VMware High Availability (VMHA) http://www.VMwareVideos.com/how-to-configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha VMware Videos - Virtualization News and How-To Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: David Davis http://www.VMwareVideos.com/how-to-configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha/comment-page-1#comment-957 David Davis Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:20:30 +0000 http://www.VMwareVideos.com/?p=303#comment-957 Hi Clayton, As long as they all have access to the same shared storage (where the VMs are) and as long as you are licensed for HA, then I don't think there is much else that has to be done. I would try what it suggests in this VMware KB article - maint mode & restarting the host mgmt agents - to see if it resolves your issue. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003829 Hope that helps! Thanks for reading! -David Hi Clayton,

As long as they all have access to the same shared storage (where the VMs are) and as long as you are licensed for HA, then I don’t think there is much else that has to be done.

I would try what it suggests in this VMware KB article – maint mode & restarting the host mgmt agents – to see if it resolves your issue.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003829

Hope that helps! Thanks for reading!
-David

]]> By: Clayton Gibson http://www.VMwareVideos.com/how-to-configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha/comment-page-1#comment-956 Clayton Gibson Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:25:49 +0000 http://www.VMwareVideos.com/?p=303#comment-956 Does anything need to be done to the hosts before moving them into the HA cluster? I've tried to move all three of my hosts, and they all give the status "The operation is not allowed in the current state". I tried to find a solution to this, but the only one I found said to cancel the "Enter service mode task" in VIC... My hosts aren't in maintenance mode. Does anything need to be done to the hosts before moving them into the HA cluster? I’ve tried to move all three of my hosts, and they all give the status “The operation is not allowed in the current state”. I tried to find a solution to this, but the only one I found said to cancel the “Enter service mode task” in VIC… My hosts aren’t in maintenance mode.

]]> By: David Davis http://www.VMwareVideos.com/how-to-configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha/comment-page-1#comment-38 David Davis Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:23:57 +0000 http://www.VMwareVideos.com/?p=303#comment-38 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 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

]]> By: Maiko http://www.VMwareVideos.com/how-to-configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha/comment-page-1#comment-37 Maiko Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:50:30 +0000 http://www.VMwareVideos.com/?p=303#comment-37 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. 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.

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