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firstamb
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‎05-02-2011 10:05 AM

HA agent has and error

'HA agent on xx.xx.xx.xx in cluster Home servers in Home datacetner has an error: Cannot complete the HA configuration'

This is what I am seeing when I came into work this morning. Tried researching it, but all others issues I am reading on are dealing with new hosts being added. This host has been here for over a year, and all of a sudden I saw my VM migrating to new Hosts (which is good) but now I have no idea on where to start to remedy this problem.

I have tried to us the reconfigure for VMware HA command, but that fails as well. Any ideas?

Oscar

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Troy_Clavell
Immortal
Immortal
‎05-02-2011 10:06 AM

can you restart the management agents on the ESX(i) Host in question?

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firstamb
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‎05-02-2011 10:21 AM

With shame in asking, how do I go about doing that?

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firstamb
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‎05-02-2011 10:55 AM

Ok after that, I rebooted the Host, it came back up with the same error showing.

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a_p_
Leadership
Leadership
‎05-02-2011 11:06 AM

Please check the disk space on th host df -h

André

Troy_Clavell
Immortal
Immortal
‎05-02-2011 11:09 AM

...also ensure there have been no changes in name resolution within the enviornment.  If using DNS, check the host records to see if they are setup properly.

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firstamb
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‎05-02-2011 11:17 AM

32% and above on all but 2. /var/log and /esx3-installation/var/log both are at 5%

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firstamb
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‎05-02-2011 11:22 AM

Look at my DNS settings, and its looks all correct. Entry is there, nothing is changed or different on the config of the Host.

This is really strange!

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Troy_Clavell
Immortal
Immortal
‎05-02-2011 11:27 AM

I guess the next question I would ask myself is "what changed?"  You can also go through the article below for a possible deeper dive

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1001596

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firstamb
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‎05-03-2011 11:11 AM

I am still unsure as to why this started happening all of a sudden, but here was my issue/resolution.

My host was going into standby mode due to the VMware DRS Power Management. Why it started this past weekend, which is still unknown, I have no clue. I had to turn off the Power Management feature on the cluster to stop it from going into standby mode. Next to resolve the HA issue, I unchecked Turn On VMware HA, and let it unregister, then I rechecked it and everything is working ok, as of now. Thanks for all your help guys.

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