Identifying HA Primary Nodes in a Cluster

[geob]

I'm looking to identify the primary and secondary HA nodes within a cluster.  I am currently running ESXi 4.1 on Dell Blade hardware.  I want to make sure all my primary nodes are not in the same chassis.

I heard that this was posssible via PowerCli, I also have heard there is a command to force promotion to or demotion from a primary node.  If anyone know how to do this with PowerCli, I would really appreciate the help?

Thanks in advance.

geob

[LucD · Accepted solution]

To list the nodes you can do

Get-Cluster | Get-HAPrimaryVMHost

Afaik, there is no way to force a node into primary.

The type of node is determined when a node joins the lcuster.

See Duncan's HA Deepdive

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Take good notice of the following basic design principle in Ducan's post:

Basic design principle: In blade environments, divide hosts over all blade chassis and never exceed four hosts per chassis to avoid having all primary nodes in a single chassis.

If you do this you will be sure that not all your primary nodes are in the same chassis. And you don't have to wurry about it.

Regards, Robert