Hi all,
I've recently been dropped in the deep end with our VM guy having resigned and left...
Simple question, what are the major steps when adding an ESX host to a cluster?
We have HA and EVC enabled clusters....
Have tried googling for a while but thought i'd give these VM forums a shot....
I'm just not too sure how the network side of it works also...like after i add the host, do i have to manually configure the network side of things...
Thanks in advance.
Yes configure networking manually.
refer the below pdf for a step by step configuration to add host to cluster in page 58
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Thankyou for the quick reply....
I guess i should elaborate...i know how to add the host to the cluster via the vSphere client.
What i'm after is a high level guide as to what is involved.
e.g.
Check for hardware compatibility to check how it will scale into our EVC cluster.
Check bla bla
Add to cluster via vSphere client.
Setup vswitches and networking.
etc. etc.
I'm just not too sure how the network side of it works also...like after i add the host, do i have to manually configure the network side of things...
What you need to do depends on whether you are using standard vSwitches or vDS (Virtual Distributed Switches). Anyway, assuming you are using standard vSwitches:
André