HA Help

[jamcm]

Does anyone know why HA seems to need to be reconfigured a lot? In my DRS cluster some of the esx servers show an alarm saying HA agent is not responding.

When i check the status on the esx servers I can see some servers in showing primary agent is running and some secondary. What is primary vs secondary and what condition would cause this?

Any help is appreciated.

[weinstein5]

I would look at your management to make sure there are no netwrok issues - in regards to the primary and secondary nnodes - primary nodes are the master nodes they maintain the catalog of all running VMs and hosts they are on - they are the nodes that initiate the cluster failover - secondary nodes just are members of the clusters -

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[rDale]

upgrade to vcenter 2.5 U4

[jamcm]

I have already upgraded to 2.5 U4.

It seems to be worse since the upgrade. Is there a way to manually uninstall the ha agent and re install?

[java_cat33]

Make sure DNS is ok between the ESX hosts.

Delete the file FT_HOSTS from the host that is having issues (it contains esx host service console addresses for HA comms etc).

Restart hostd - service mgmt-vmware restart

Re-configure the host for HA