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duahimanshu816
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Vcenter's VM is not coming up after primary server went down!!!!!

Hello Masters,

Please, i am new to VmwareESXI, having some doubts and questions.

here is below list of the equipement i have:-

Two Servers installed ESXI 6.7

Dell Storage connected to ESXI through Fiber Channel.

Primary Server MGMT IP:-172.22.1.27

Secondary Server MGMT IP:-172.22.1.29

Now, I install VCenter, during the installation it ask me to enter ESXI host ip address i.e. primary server and I selected the Dell storage Volume.

Vcentre installation has been done successfully, I am able to access it, I able to create host cluster and database cluster. no any error everything is perfect.

Now the issue is:- I removed MGMT cable from the Primary server then i  am unable to access the vcentre, While i should be access from the secondary server but it not working.

any guess where am i wrong? what should i do?

I would be really grateful if you could help me to figure it out.

thanks in advance.

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scott28tt
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What were you expecting to happen?

Sounds like you have no network redundancy on your ESXi hosts. vSphere HA can failover VMs, including the VCSA VM, but that depends on you having configured isolation addresses for HA and having set the isolation response to power off VMs.

Determining Responses to Host Issues

You can also setup vCenter HA, but that will only protect vCenter - not the rest of your VMs.

vCenter High Availability


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duahimanshu816
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Thanks for your reply, I will go through the documents which you shared. I just wanted to confirm that to host the vcenter on Storage partition is not the issue.

It might be the bad question but someone told me you must have installed the vcenter applience on local datastore.

It just a matter of configuration? right? 

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scott28tt
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I ran vCenter Server on shared storage for years when it protected just by vSphere HA - a long time before vCenter HA existed (which as you'll see in the documentation relies on clones).

Even with vCenter HA I do not believe it is a requirement to have the nodes on local datastores - many deployments these days don't have local datastores other than the ESXi installation itself.

You didn't say which datastore your VCSA was on, nor whether you had configured vSphere HA or vCenter HA (or both) - it's hard to understand your setup in terms of storage and networking from what you've shared so far, diagrams would be helpful.


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