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jepoytengco
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cannot find vsphere HA master agent

Just setup a cluster and added 2 hosts, not sure why it just showed me a red alert showing "Cannot find vSphere HA master agent"

What I did so far is disbaled/enabled HA but still shows up

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Jeff

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MikeStoica
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What ESXi version are you running?

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jepoytengco
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6.7 U1 build 10764712

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StephenMoll
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This usually indicates that the kernel management ports are unable to communicate properly. They might for example have a firewall between them blocking some required ports or packets, or they might be setup on different subnets with no gateway or router to allow them to communicate.

In short the kernel ports need to be configured onto the same network.

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diegodco31
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Hi

Did you try to disable HA and then enable it on your cluster again?

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jepoytengco
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@StephenMoll

I can check the connectivity among hosts.

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Jeff

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jepoytengco
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@Diego

I did disable/enable the HA feature but didn't help.

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Jeff

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jepoytengco
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Issue has been resolved. I went to the hosts vmkernel port settings and for some reason vsan wasn't checked. Only management is checked. So after I ticked vsan for both hosts vmkernel, it went away and it's now connected.

Thanks for all inputs

Jeff

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StephenMoll
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Using HA on a VSAN cluster requires a minimum of three Esxi hosts.

There was no indication in your original post that you were using VSAN. It is true that HA uses the VSAN storage network instead of the Management network in such setups.

Anyway the warning stands... 2 hosts is not a supported configuration for HA on a VSAN cluster.

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jepoytengco
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Apologies for the incomplete info. Basically the setup is using 2 hosts, and the 3rd host will be installed with vcsa and vsan witness.

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StephenMoll
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Ah OK.

Another thing that may be relevant is that when there are less than four hosts in a VSAN cluster, data cannot be maintained in compliance with the FTT policy, so care must be taken if any host maintenance is required.

Also I don't believe VSAN will auto-recover from a host failure with less than four hosts. Once a failed host is repaired or replaced, the recover process might be manual.

MM83J
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i have the same issue and solved by troubleshooting this article:

https://pyodoo.com/article/vmware-vcenter-6x-cannot-find-vsphere-ha-master-agent-alarm/

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