After vSphere vSphere Distributed Switch has been created and connected with all hosts, enable vSphere HA on the cluster.
Procedure
- Log in to the Management vCenter Server by using the vSphere Web Client.
- Open a Web browser and go to https://sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local/vsphere-client.
- Log in using the following credentials.
Setting
Value
User name
administrator@vsphere.local
Password
vsphere_admin_password
- In the Navigator, click Host and Clusters and expand the sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local tree.
- Select the sfo01-m01-mgmt01 cluster.
- Click the Configure tab and click vSphere Availability.
- Click Edit.
- In the sfo01-m01-mgmt01 - Edit Cluster Settings dialog, select the Turn on vSphere HA check box.
- Click Failures and Responses, select the following values:
Setting
Value
Enable Host Monitoring
Selected
Host Failure Response
Restart VMs
Response for Host Isolation
Power off and restart VMs
Datastore with PDL
Disabled
Datastore with APD
Disabled
VM Monitoring
VM Monitoring Only
- Click Admission Control, and enter the following settings.
Setting
Value
Host failures cluster tolerates
1
Define host failover capacity by
Cluster resource percentage
Override calculated failover capacity
Deselected
Performance degradation VMs tolerate
100%
- Click OK.
Note:
When you enable vSphere HA, the operation fails on hosts 2,3, and 4. This is expected behavior, networking is configured during host profile steps setup.