Cutting to the chase, how do I know if HA is happy and healthy for all hosts in a cluster? We are very new to ESX/ESXi/vCenter. We have licensing for HA, etc. Most things are fine, but w...
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Cutting to the chase, how do I know if HA is happy and healthy for all hosts in a cluster? We are very new to ESX/ESXi/vCenter. We have licensing for HA, etc. Most things are fine, but we had a problem with the vCenter box recently and it hung (the vCenter box is running on an ESXi server unrelated to our production cluster. The problem was caused by... you guessed it, NTP problems... we had NTP working fine on the ESXi hosts in our production cluster, but the vCenter box is completely separate physically and virtually from our HA production cluster and we neglected it). After rebooting the vCenter host, it came up and started spitting all kinds of heartbeat errors for all hosts and a couple of HA errors for one host. Couldn't find anything wrong b/c everything seems to be working fine. So I rebooted the vCenter VM, and when it came up 10 minutes ago it seemed happy. No more alarms/errors still at this point in time. So I'm expecting errors to start popping up any minute, but if there are none, how can I tell if HA is happy?