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vSphere 4 "HA and Network redundancy"

Hello,

pls help me, i need a guide how i must configure each host in my cluster to enable ha. if i want to enable ha on my cluster i recive the messages.

Insufficiet resources to satisfy HA fialover level on cluster host.domain.local in domain.local
Unable to contact a primery HA agent in cluster host.domain.local in domain.local
HA agent on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in cluster host.domain.local in domain.local has an error:
cmd addnode failed for secondary node: Internal AAE Error - agent could not start.: Unknown HA error

pls help me i want to go HOME! :)

Nick

first make sure you have dns setup on both hosts and entries in your DSN zone for both esx servers. Then make sure you can ping them by name.

Then have a look at this
http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-articles/vmotion-drs-high-availability/configure-vmware-high-availability-vmha.html

Quixtos

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i have create the cluster using only the ip adresses of the 2 esx hosts. is it necessary to use a dns name for each server to activate the ha feature? If yes i think i must recreate the cluster using dns names.

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Quixtos

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ok then i must check the hosts. sorry i´am not a vmware professional :(

back soon with more information

Quixtos

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oh my god! by default the esx server refuse access with putty? i use my root user and password but i cannot login.

Nick

that is correct. you can either create a new user the VIC and allow root access. Or change the access for root.

See this http://communities.vmware.com/thread/72736

Quixtos

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ok. i´am now in the office to configure the hosts files. i set up the hosts file for each host an can ping from esx1 the esx2 and from esx2 the esx1.

now i try to enable ha. i hope it will work now but "Configuring HA" hung by 84%. Not good.

Quixtos

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ok now i recive the following message in VSphere Client (Cluster)

Configuration Issues
Insufficient recources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster.domain.local in domain.local
Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx currently has no management network redundancy

Quixtos

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My Network config on each host.
network.png

Quixtos

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for a non linux guy it is not easy to understand.

Nick

do you have another phyiscal nic that you can add to vswitch0?

vSphere 4 &quot;HA and Network redundancy&quot;

vSphere 4 "HA and Network redundancy"