Building vCenter HA first time

[insearchof]

VMware 6.5 U2

Dell PowerEdge R430 Gen 13 ESXI Hosts

I installed 3 VCSA one on each ESXI host

Primary

Passive

Witness

on vcenter I went to configuration    then vCenter HA

Selected configure   then Basic

Got this error

You must be a member of

Single Signon System Configuration Administrator Group

I went to Administration   Then select Single Signon

I get you do not have the permissions to view this object   My account has administrator privileges

This is the first time setting up HA

What am I missing here?

Thank you,.

[NathanosBlightc · Accepted solution]

Hi

No need to create both of Passive and witness VCSA, they will be generated and deployed whenever you configure VCHA wizard successfully.

But you need at least three of ESXi hosts and assign and build a dedicated network for them to send their heartbeat (Active, Passive, Witness)

And to do this you need to an administrator account of vsphere.local (PSC SSO) not other admins of permissions-granted domains (like AD)

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[insearchof]

Amin

Thank you for the response

All my esxi hosts and venter is domain joined to my AD system

I use an ad account to logon that is setup on venter with administrative functions.

I was able to logon as administrator@vsphere.local   and start the HA configuration.

The configuration is taking a very long time to process

Several hours and still cloning the vsca

Any ideas

Thank you

[NathanosBlightc]

Your welcome my friend

Can you check is there any warning or error about VCHA initial config?

check following path in the primary VCSA node:

/var/log/vmware/vcha/vcha.log

[NathanosBlightc]

Hey buddy

I wrote a new post in my blog to speak about what is really different between vCenter HA as a very incredible feature of vCenter and VMware clustering feature vSphere HA and deep dive a little to VCHA. I hope it can be more useful for you

vSphere HA vs vCenter HA