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as900w
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How to add the number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores for the ESXi host

I have a cluster and enabled vSphere HA.

After enabled vSphere HA, have a warning:

The number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores for this host is 0, which is less then required:2

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I have a iSCSI Storage(Windows Server 2012)

And add storage to ESXi hosts

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What should I do?

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diegodco31
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You need to add a second datastore.

Then right click each of the ‘hosts’ and select ‘Reconfigure for HA’.

Diego Oliveira
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diegodco31
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Check it link:

vSphere - 'The Number of HA Heartbeat Datastores for this host is 0' | PeteNetLive

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HA datastore heartbeating comes into play if a HA cannot reach other hosts on the network. The secondary datastore provides additional resilience, and if you don't want to create a second datatsore, you may consider to disable the warning (see HA error: "The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2" (200473... )

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as900w
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I have seen this KB.

I want to solve the warning instead of ignoring it.

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diegodco31
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You need to add a second datastore.

Then right click each of the ‘hosts’ and select ‘Reconfigure for HA’.

Diego Oliveira
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcodiego
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Thanks, I has been solve the warning.

add second datastore in Heartbeat Datastores

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