If you are configuring a cluster with less than 2 datastores, you will receive an HA warning “The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2” You can add an option to the HA Advanced Options to supress this warning.
- Log in to vCenter Server
- Right-click the cluster and click Edit Settings
- Click vSphere HA > Advanced Options
- Under Option, add an entry for das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore
- Under Value, type true
- Click Cluster Features
- De-select Turn on vSphere HA and click OK
- Wait for all the hosts in the cluster to re-configure HA, then …
This is a great script to keep handy. If you have multiple RDM’s on a VM and need to get the NAA_ID for them the below PowerCLI command will get you that information.
1Get-VM VMNAME| Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName,CapacityGB | fl
If you then need to match the SCSI virtual disk to the Guest OS this is a great article on how to do so.
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