Does anyone know why I keep getting this HA error?

[skosugi]

Everytime I add my hosts into a cluster it keeps giving me an error which says " An error occured during the configuration of the HA agent on the host. I have tried creating a cluster and then adding the hosts to the cluster without HA then configuring it after and I still get the same error but only on one of my hosts. I've also noticed that the error can be on either host depending on which one I move into the cluster first it seems but not sure. Any help would be great

[weinstein5]

Key things to check -

1. DNS - Make sure you can resolve all hosts in the cluster and VC by both short and FQDN - if you do not have a DNS infrastructure you can use the hosts file on the respective machines

2. Make Sure the FQDN names are configured correctly on your hosts

3. Make sure you have added your ESX hosts to VC by name and not IP address

Those are the things I would check first

[admin]

I would check you dns suffix on each host plus check your hosts file for errors. I once had this because the servers had low memory (test bench example)

[skosugi]

Ok, I can ping both FQDN and IP of each host fine, but I do remember adding the hosts using the IP, and not the FQDN. I'll readd them and see whatr happens.

[mike_laspina]

Hello,

Depending on the version of ESX you will find some usefull info on the issue by checking the aam logs.

The are located in /var/log/vmware/aam

look at

cat /var/log/vmware/aam/youresxhostname_ftbb.out

and

cat /var/log/vmware/aam/youresxhostname_agent.err

also look at some of the config logs, they can reveal why an install is not completing.

e.g.

aam_config_util_addnode.log

aam_config_util_listprimaries.log

aam_config_util_install.log

also check

/var/log/vmware/aam/vmware_youresxhostname.log

[skosugi]

Ok, I had a look at the hosts file and it had an error in th FQDN. Then I reconfigured for HA then the error is gone :). However there is still a yellow triangle error on the actual cluster itself??

[weinstein5]

That could be an alert in regards to the amount of resource the cluster needs to support the VMs running in it -

[skosugi]

Ya. I don't even have any VM's created yet. Thanks. It seems the HA error is disappeared though. Thats good. I'm gonna create some VMs and see what happens. Thanks!