vsphere 4 and vsphere 5 host in same cluster

[yatharth]

can i keep vsphere 4 & 5 hosts in same cluster? i tried but getting HA error - vsphere 5 HA agent cannot reach some of mgmt network addresses of other hosts.

[Troy_Clavell]

Yes, you can manage a vSphere4 Host and a vSphere5 Host in the same cluster.  However, in order to manage these hosts, you must be running vCenter5

[yatharth]

I have vcenter5 only, wonder why i am getting this error.

[Troy_Clavell]

is there a particular error you are getting when trying to configure HA?

[yatharth]

Sorry, could not reply.

i am getting error as "cannot complete configuration of vsphere HA agent on host. Misconfiguration in host network setup, host can not reach some of the management addresses of other hosts". Today I figured out that this is due to the reason that there is no service console in vsphere5, though i read this many times earlier but this never came to my mind during configuration. In my ESX4 host service console is configured which is not there in ESXi5 hence i am getting network mismatch error. Need to figure out how to do this if i want to keep my ESX4 & ESXi5 host in same cluster.

Due to 2 filers in 2 networks ESX are configured as mentioned below

• service console1 - 192.168.1.x, Gateway - 192.168.1.1
• service console2 - 10.10.19.x, Gateway -192.168.1.1
• vmotion - 10.10.19.x, Gateway - 10.10.19.1
• vkernel1 - 192.168.1.x, Gateway -10.10.19.1
• vkernel2 - 10.10.19.x, Gateway -10.10.19.1

i vsphere5 since there in no service console port hence i end up having problem as there can be only single gateway(till now i have not been able to figure out if i can have different gateway).

     as of now i can think of one solution to change config in all other esx4 host to have same gateway. kindly suggest.

[arturka]

Hi

Would be easier if you could make a printscreen of netowrking config from one ESX and  one ESXi and post it

Cheers
Artur

Please, don't forget the awarding points for "helpful" and/or "correct" answers.

[Techstarts]

You cannot keep this configuration and enable HA. HA is written from ground up in 5.0. There are significant difference between these version as far as HA is considered.

[chilow]

Have you tried adding static routes to the ESXi 5.0 host?