Hi,
Using vCenter 5.1 u1 and ESXi hosts 5.1 u1
I want to patch my ESXi hosts for the first time so it may be something in the setup but.... I would not know what. The whole setup was done by someone who has set up several 5.1 installations. **
I have a cluster of 3 hosts, I put one in maintenance mode. All VMs have been moved to the other 2 hosts and while the host went into maintenance mode the details column showed "Disabling vSphere HA on ...." So I assume that this host is no longer part of the HA machines in the cluster.
When I want to initiate the remediation of the host I get:
Cannot remediate host <name> because it is a part of a HA admission control enabled cluster
Which is funny as this host is no longer a member of the HA group in the cluster.
According to VMware KB: An ESX/ESXi host remediation fails with the error: No supported hosts found for remediate...
I could simple disable HA on the cluster, remediate the host and then enable HA once more.
It is the only relevant KB article I could find but.... somehow that does not feel like it is the proper solution, nor does it feel like it describes my problem as I allready put the host in maintenance mode and HA should not be a problem any more.
Anyone know of a better solution before I try disabling HA on the cluster?
** I may be a VCP 4.1 but there were too many changes for me from 4.1 to 5.1u1 to feel comfortable doing this myself. And I am glad I did it that way as even he ran into problems that were not covered yet in a KB because of the fact that we put the vCenter server on Windows 2012.
