vCenter HA at 96% and then vcenter stops working

[insearchof]

VMware ESXI   6.5 U3

4 ESXI Hosts on Dell Power Edge R430 Gen 13

I ran the set up on HA and the cloning of my VCSA got to 96 %

The peer vcsa was created

Then my Vcenter stopped working Nagios checks my VCSA and it reported it as down

I was unable to ping.

I connected to my ESXI host running the VCSA using powercli

restarted the VM VCSA

After vcenter caome back online my peer as orphaned.

I removed it from inventory.

How to implement HA the best method.?

Any ideas on this?

Thank you

Tom

[Vijay2027]

Need more info. Can you upload vpxd and vcha logs.

What is the datatsore that you are using?? (VMFS5 / NFS 3,...)

[insearchof]

vjay

I have NFS 3      VMFS 5 and VMFS 6

The VMFS 5 and 6 are internal SSD and IDE storage

All my VMs are on the NFS 3 storage

My current VCSA is on NFS03    a NFS 3 type storage

I started the HA process and selected NFS5 for the peer and NFS2 for the witness  both are NFS 3 drives.

Should I use the VMFS 5 or 6?

How do I get the vpxd and vcha logs downloaded to my desktop so I can upload them?

I have powercli here

Thank you

[Vijay2027]

vcha on NFS 3 has its own limitations. Let me look it up in VMware docs.

[Vijay2027 · Accepted solution]

Cloning a Passive or Witness VM for a VCHA deployment to the same NFS 3.1 datastore as the source Active node VM fails. You must use NFS4 or clone the Passive and Witness VMs to a datastore different from the Active VM.

vCenter HA Clone Operation Fails During Deployment

VMware Knowledge Base

[insearchof]

Vijay,

Would it be better to vmotion my VCSA to the internal datastores that are VMFS6 

The run the HA

Point the peer and witness to separate VMFS 6 datastores.

After that completes successfully then I can vmotion them to my external NFS 3 drives

Thoughts.

[Vijay2027]

Yes that is a better option.

[insearchof]

Vijay

It worked moving the VCSA to internal VMFS 5 /6

I have to Vcenters and it worked on both   Now HA up and running

One other question.

On the peer and witness VCSA two Network adapaters were assigned.

One adapter used the IP address I assigned during the setup

The other network adapter is my question

On the Peer and the Witness the second network adapter are assigned the same ip address  and my Meraki is reporting ip address conflict

!, should I change them to static addresses?

2. How do I do that?

is it using the web interface for vcsa?

Thank you

Tom

[insearchof]

Vijay

Got it working all good now.

Had to reset the ip addresses and found this article to do it with

https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/photon_admin/setting-a-static-ip-address.html

[Fletch9871]

I'm not sure why this was such a PITA to find but there is a VMware workaround for this:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/50121880
This worked and got me thru the 6.7 vCenter HA deployment.

Enjoy...Chris