Hello,
As the topic states, I am having an issue adding multiple hosts to an HA cluster in my test ESXi environment. To give you some quick background on the setup, we are starting to familiarize ourselves with Virtual Infrastructure as we will be consolodating our servers sometime in late Q1 2009. We have two whiteboxes which are running ESX 3.5i U3, another system which is running a trial version of Virtual Centre 2.5 U3, and another system running OpenFiler which is acting as a SAN for the ESXi hosts. As I already mentioned, we are just trying to familiarize ourselves with the setup and everyday tasks related to VI3.
The problem I am having is in regards to HA. I can only successfully add one host to the HA cluster. When I attempt to add a second host to the HA cluster, I always receive an error. I've tried adding the hosts in the opposite order and have even reinstalled ESXi from scratch on one of the hosts. I've also tried the usual "Reconfigure HA" command as well as disabling HA on the cluster and then re-enabling it. The error I receive when adding the second ESXi host is as follows:
An error occurred during the configuration of the HA Agent on the host:
cmd addnode failed for primary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within 3 minutes.
I've searched the internet but am unable to find much resources which hint at solving this problem.
I was hoping somone might be able to step up and point me into the right direction for having a working HA cluster.
If you require any further information, kindly let me know and I will provide it.
Thank you!
