Joining a Cluster

[cef2lion]

I have 6 Dell 2950 ESX hosts. Four of the 2950s are clovertown and the other two are harpertown processors. All 6 2950s have spare the same SAN storage and networking is identical. I created a HA EVC Cluster. What is the process for joining an ESX host to a cluster? Do you drag and drop onto the cluster? Do you need to shutdown all the VMs on the ESX host prior to joining the cluster.

Craig

[Troy_Clavell]

right click on the cluster and choose "add host" or drag and drop your host onto the cluster.

[cef2lion]

Should the VMs be shutdown prior?

[COdlk]

No. the VMs do not need to be shut down.

david

[cef2lion]

I tried. However, I found out with EVC enabled on the cluster it says all VMs need to be powered off to move the host into the cluster.

[Troy_Clavell]

yes, for an EVC Cluster the VM's must be powered off to join initially.

[cef2lion]

Thanks. I have the ESX host in the cluster now. When I try and start a VM I get an error.

insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for ha

Is this because I only have one ESX host in the cluster. Can I override that if so?

Craig

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

once you start adding more hosts into the cluster that error will go away.