vSphere HA provides high availability to the management VMs and ensures that the VMs can be powered on when a host failure occurs, hence providing business continuity and minimum downtime.

Procedure

  1. In the cluster TCP_MGMT_CLUSTER settings, enable vSphere HA.
  2. Configure vSphere HA using the values in the table.
    Table 1. Management Cluster vSphere HA Settings

    Parameter

    Value

    VMware vSphere High Availability

    Enabled

    Host Monitoring

    Enabled

    Admission Control

    Enabled

    Admission Control

    Host failure cluster tolerates (the same setting used for vSAN)

    VM Monitoring

    Enabled

    Monitoring Sensitivity

    High

    Heartbeat Datastores

    Automatically select datastores accessible from the host