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  • Handling the Lifecycle of a vCenter HA Environment

    Jul 30, 2019 vCenter HA vCenter Server Lifecycle
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    vSphere 6.5 first introduced vCenter HA and since its inception has been deployed in many environments. When it comes to upgrading or updating your vCenter HA environment there are some specific considerations. If you have wondered what it takes to handle the lifecycle of a vCenter HA enabled vCenter Server, keep reading!

    vCenter HA Overview

    vCenter HA has seen wide adoption as customers wish to provide provide high availability for their vCenter Server. VMware Solutions such as Site Recovery Manager, NSX and Horizon View rely heavily on the availability of the vCenter Server being online, so …

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  • vCenter 6.5U1 Update Issues with VCHA Advanced Deployment

    Aug 2, 2017 vCenter Server vSphere 6.5 vCenter HA
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    vSphere 6.5U1 was released on July 27th. This is an incremental update a lot of people wait for before upgrading from a previous version. I have been lucky to have been running on vSphere 6.5 for quite some time and have been enjoying it very much.

    Obviously we never upgrade production first, if we can help it. I decided to attempt an upgrade on one of our QA vCenters that was deployed using the VCHA Advanced workflow. I followed my standard upgrade steps Updating a VCHA 6.5 vCenter however when I went to failover the Active node to the upgraded passive/witness nodes, services would not start, …

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  • vSphere 6.5 - Updating Appliance configured with vCenter HA

    Feb 3, 2017 vCenter Server vSphere 6.5 vCenter HA
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    Warning:
    A few others and myself have noticed that when updating a VCHA Cluster to 6.5U1 it resets the hostname to localhost.localdomain stopping vCenter Web Client from Loading.
    It seems to be isolated to Advanced Deployments and not Basic. I would recommend destroying your VCHA Cluster, updating, then redeploying in this scenario.
    Warning2:
    It also seems that if you try to redeploy VCHA Advanced after an upgrade, it still resets the hostname, I have a case opened and will update here as neccessary.

    The first vSphere 6.5 Patch (6.5a) was just released! So far it seems there are a few …

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  • vSphere 6.5 - vCenter HA Health Degraded due to Password Expiration

    Feb 1, 2017 vCenter HA vSphere 6.5
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    One of my favorite new features of vSphere 6.5 is definately vCenter HA. I was checking out alerts when I noticed i had an alarm for vCenter HA being degraded.

    Looking through the GUI, I was unable to find anything in regards to why the Health was a warning and why the components would not sync. Then I remembered a previous case I had opened for VCHA.

    There is a log file located in /var/log/vmware/vcha

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  • vSphere 6.5 - vCenter HA (VCHA) Issues

    Nov 21, 2016 vCenter HA Availability
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    So as everyone has probably seen, vSphere 6.5 is now GA. One of the features i have been waiting for the most is vCenter HA. I have spent some time trying to get this working in my lab. Unfortunately after countless tries i was stuck. Thanks to folks in the vExpert Slack for helping me try to resolve this, but unfortunately this was a case for VMware Support.

    Every time I would try to configure vCenter HA using the Advanced Wizard, I would get the following error.

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