Can someone explain what this event means. I'm getting it from both of my vmware esxi4 embedded hosts:
CMD: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_gethostbyname host1 |grep FAILED
Looks like you may have DNS issues. Make sure FQDN resolves on all hosts and vCenter. use vmkping to test.
I just tried it with host name and fqdn. All worked. I pinged the hosts and the vcenter. Any other ideas?
I'm assuming you get this when trying to configure HA? If so, you have a redundant NIC for your managment network?
HA has actually been turned on for quite some time now. Currently, I just have two nics on each host dedicated to management.
either way it's HA related. If name resolution is setup properly, maybe it's a simple as right click "reconfigure for HA" . Plus prior to that, maybe restart the management agents.
I tried the "reconfigure ha". We'll see what happens. What exactly does that do? Just reset all ha settings to what they're suppose to be?
reconfigure for HA is more of a reinstall of the HA agent on the ESX(i). Hopefully that fixes it for you.
