How to reinstall HA agent on an ESX Host ?

[TonyJK]

We have fixed a HA problem by removing an ESX host from a cluster and rejoined it.

A fellow mentions that the HA agent is installed when the host joins the cluster.

Is there any way for us to reinstall the HA agent on an ESX Host ? Can we install the HA agent when VMs are still running (we have to put the ESX Host in maintenance mode before we can remove it from the cluster) ?

Thanks

[madda]

I haven't tried this before, but have you tried disabling HA on the cluster and then re-enabling it?


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Mark Atherton

[penghaug]

Hi,

Yes HA automatically installed when a host is added to a cluster with HA enabled.

Try to right click your host with the HA problem and choose Reconfigure for VMware HA.

-Pål-André

[Tillmidnight]

Right click host,choose "reconfigure for vmware HA"

[Rajeev_S]

Hi

we can remove the vpx agent manually and reinstall it. I guess this would also reinstall the aam(HA) agent.

- rpm -qa | grep vpx --- this will list the version of VPXA agent installed.

- rpm -qa | grep aam -- this will list the version of aam agent installed.

- rpm -e

Hope this helps!

[TonyJK]

Many thanks for your suggestion.

Do you think that we can perform the installation when VMs are running ?

Thanks

[penghaug]

Yes, you can.

-Pål-André