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rajiv8047
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Add a second ESXI host to vcenter

how to add a second esxi host to vcenter

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tomtom901
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Add host on your datacenter object?

abhilashhb
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Like you added the first one ;-).

You will have to login to your vcenter server. Right Click on the vcenter object where u will see an option that says Add host. When you click on it, you will be prompted to enter the root password, choose if you want to enable lockdown mode and other things. Once this wizard the host successfully gets added to vcenter. Same goes to adding a host into a cluster.

Abhilash B
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Please don't mind me asking, but are you asking for how to add another host to a "vCenter Server" instance or are you trying to add another host in the "vSphere Client" while directly connected ton ESXi host? In order to manage multiple ESXi hosts, you need to deploy vCenter Server, either installed on a supported Windows Server OS or as the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance.

André

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abhilashhb
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After replying i was actually thinking to ask the same question André Smiley Happy Coz it sounds like Rajiv is confused between the vSphere client and vCenter.

Good that you brought it up Smiley Happy

Abhilash B
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rajiv8047
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Thanks for the reply the vcenter server is already installed and one esxi host and vm are running smoothing,the problem was solved. it

was misconfiguration in vmnet 2 and reconfigured to NAT setting .No it was added the second esxi to the Vcenter server.

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rajiv8047
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Four vm are maned by vcenter center,when adding second esxi host it was not connecting problem was on Vmnet2 configuration which was

no connectivity to vcenter. Thanks for the review for the question.

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