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VCSA Crashed lost network adapter

VMware 6.5

I had my vCenter VCSA crash the other night and still can not get it to work.

It was a HA setup and both passive and peer nodes went down.

I shutdown all three Passive peer and witness  started one at a time and found out that on the passive VCSA I lost the primary network adapter.

I found that the network adapter is not set.   I assigned static ip addresses I tried DHCP but the ip address does not stay

 

I logged onto the VCSA and ran this

 

ifconfig

 

/opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net

 

  Main Menu wiil
appear

 

Select option for
network adapter,

 

I set the adapter to the ip address

 

I now cannot bring up vcenter at all.  

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I then decided to create a new VCSA appliance and that worked for a while.  I updated the VCSA and after the update I can not access vcenter at all


Any ideas or suggestions?

Need help thanks
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Andrew

Snapshot good idea

6.7 not on the plans yet.  looking into that
Just create a new VCSA 6,7 appliance, don't bother messing around with old faulty tech!

No need to update ESXi hosts! Just use a new appliance with longer support with issues fixed!
Andrew

The 6.7 appliance will host 6.5 ESXI with no issues?
No issues other than 6.7 is far superior to 6.5! (issues and bugs fixed!), no problems with hosts or VMs.
Andrew can VCHA 6.7 be setup for HA mode?  Cant seem to fined it in the new interface.

I like that it works with EDGE now.
Thanks

Making a snapshot of vsca 6.7 and then updating it.  will then replace the 6.5 vcenter after I see the update works.
Andrew  

Updates 6.7 is up and running just have some minor things to set up.

All ESXI hosts are working fine.

Plan is to update them to 6.7 soon.


Do you know of a process to upgrade VCSA in a HA mode ?  My other vcenter is running 6.5 in HA mode. so I have a peer and witness

Wil the upgrade take that into consideration?

New to this part.

Thanks

Tom
Andrew

I use Veeam Backup and Replication for my backup solution.

If I create New then All my Backup and replication jobs will fail because It will not know the new VCA name

I was thinking maybe this

Remove HA first then just have the original VCSA still running then I can do and Upgrade of vcsa  after that deploy HA again


Thoughts
Andrew,

I got HA working on 6.7 also

Some minor things yet to do

Thanks for your help

Will upgrade my other vcenter soon too.