how many esxi hosts need for run VCHA

[baber]

Dear All

Hi

i have installed vcsa 6.5 and have just a HP 380p G8 and now want test vcenterha(VCHA) now i want to know can test VCHA with one esxi host or that is necessary had more that one esxi  ?

BR

Babak

[Mattallford]

‌There is an advanced setting you can set to allow this. See William Lam's post for more info:

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/11/how-to-enable-vcenter-server-high-availability-vcha-in-vspher...

Cheers, Matt.

[baber]

so thanks

i have read that doc but i want clearly now can run vcenter ha (VCHA) on just one esxi host ?

BR

[Mattallford]

‌What's unclear?

You need to go into the advanced settings of the vCenter Server you are enabling HA on and change the advanced setting as referenced in William's post.

Cheers, Matt.

[baber]

i just want to know is that important had more than 1 esxi host for run vCenterHA (VCHA) or can run that on  one esxi host ?

BR

[vmEck]

You can run it all on a single host but it is unsupported. A minimum of 3 hosts is required. If this was for production, running all 3 nodes on a single host would defeat the purpose of an HA solution. But, if this is just to test it in a lab environment Willam's post shows you how to do it with limited resources.

[motowomen143]

Hi ,

VCHA Basic configuration setup and Advanced configuration setup both can be configure with only 1 host,but it defeat the purpose of  having HA for VC.

[vasan22in]

Hello,

For your lab purpose you can use one ESXi host to configure VCHA to edit HA advanced settings, but in production configuring VCHA required minimum 3 ESXi hosts. Because VCHA configuration will install additional 2 nodes called Passive & Witness. So, the scenario here is deploy all nodes in to different ESXi hosts/storage.

Refer the below url.,

How to deploy a vCenter HA cluster – Part 1 ..