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Canceltodebug
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ESXi 5.0 U3 HA Problem

Hi all,

I'm hoping for some advice here.

To cut a long story short, I had to uninstall vCenter 5.0 and install 5.0 Update 3. This all went through fine but 1 of our 9 hosts is having trouble initialising HA. It will stall at installing the HA agent.

I have rebooted the host, removed from the cluster and added back in and tried a number of solutions on the net such as, stopping HA for the cluster and starting the service on the host before the whole cluster etc.

I really think I've tried everything suggested on the net and that my only solution is to re-install ESXi on the host.

One thing that might help is that I also cannot scan the host for updates through the update manager. All others are fine. I've checked the firewall settings but cannot see any difference to the working hosts.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Troy_Clavell
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besides removing it from the cluster, have you tried completely removing it from vCenter altogether?  If you are still having problems with VUM and HA after removing it completely from vCenter, it may be worthwhile rebuilding from scratch.  May be quicker than continuing to troubleshoot.

Canceltodebug
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Yeah, removed it completely from vCenter and added back in. Same issue. I feel that I've tried everything suggested on the net and that a reinstall of ESXi is the only option really.

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