How to Setup vCenter Server High Availability (HA) | vSphere 7.0

[@DingusKahn-xn8ju]

At 4:28 of the Video you reference a Network "VCenter-HA-PG" was this Part of the Prerequisites need to make this work? is your Illustration a LABS version from VMware or a Retail Production installation? Because I too feel as if there are Missing Prerequisites not made Clear.

[@prakashtvel860]

Great Work.. Keep it up.. i understand clealy... crisp and clear information.... I am following your blog since its started now Subscribed this channel too.

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Thanks a lot Prakash...... Thank you so much for your support....please do keep supporting....

[@jonman2279]

It seems like the passive and witness are on the same node. If the host goes down, dont the witness and passive nodes Also go down? Or are they on separate ESXI hosts?

[@VMwareArenavideos]

They will be deployed on different nodes...even you can deploy it across different clusters aswell....we have a environment where I deployed active and passive nodes across diffrent clusters from different storage background..example, primary is deployed on San and passive is deployed in vsan..even we can have availability incase of storage array failures as well in addition to the host failure.

[@Excited-IT-Architect]

Again great staff, thank you very much! - For future videos, would you please also consider producing a video about what's the recommended scenario for deploying standard switches and for which purpose you recommend to deploy distributed switch(es) (considering failure scenarios out of your experience) or even a mixed setup (e.g. for vSAN, vMotion) and other performance considerations like Jumbo frames etc.? Thank you.

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Thanks a lot Mave Rick....sure I will try to post

[@mustafaaahmed1191]

Can you please explain what licenses you were using on vsphere and vcenter? is the 3 host structure a must or a recommendation?

[@ShawnIsBatman]

Licensing for vCenter HA is included in vSphere Standard Edition and Enterprise+ edition. The 3-host setup is not required, but is recommended for full/better availability...avoiding a single failure that would impact multiple components.

[@Dudleydogg]

what is Min nodes to do this, asking because ever since i setup non of my host will sleep now.

[@tejendergoud254]

Very informative video. Can we have a deep dive video of HA on cluster level

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Sure, I will try to post the deep dive video

[@arshadshaikh707]

I have one vcenter which has 2 Datacenters one is primary & second is DR (Different location) but both the Datacenter doesn't have any network restrictions so in this case, can we keep Passive & witness node on DR site?

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Passive can be in DR site but witness needs to be different DC than primary and passive to be better decisive on failure situations

[@arshadshaikh707]

@@VMwareArenavideos In case I have 2 Datacenters (Primary & DR) what should i do in this case? I have dark fiber connection over 10 Gig throughput.

[@bhas4553]

Clear cut explanation ..Thank you

[@seantellsit1431]

Did you every do a follow up video?

[@murmashi]

why do we need a Gateway in vCenter-HA-PG network?

[@rishabhjain24]

I have a doubt, If I want to disable HA on a particular VM and Cluster is running on vSPhere Standard which means there is no DRS. Would that work? Can I disable HA on a particular VM?

[@waynehawkins654]

Yes you can, I believe it was version 6.7 on has this.

[@hamzabeniffou9324]

Hi, thanks for the videos. I'm ready to install vCenter Server 6.7 on windows VM. Can you please tell me what is recommended ? I have two VM: one for my active directory and one for my Win 10. Where should i install it ? Thanks.

[@rowebil00]

You should use the vCenter Server Appliance. It is more supported. VMware will sometimes give up on support cases with VMware vCenter Server for Windows and just tell you to upgrade to VCSA. Lastly, it runs on VMware Linux OS, so they are 100% responsible for the issues whereas on Windows they could tell you it's a Windows Server issue.

[@shankaranandravichandran4357]

Brother, My environemt is vsphere 6.7, now we are planning to upgrade to 7.0 with HA. do you have any document for prerequisites or procedure for up gradation

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Please read my articles on vsphere 7 upgrade www.vmwarearena.com/category/vsphere-7-0-upgrade/

[@manikanthkommoju3176]

if you configure vmotion, drs for the esxi host, in case of event of failure of that host all the vms will migrate to other, then why should i go for vcha?

[@fazilahmed9303]

This is to isolate the ESXI host isolation or a failure. Because without HA you cannot identify the host failure your own at this point. V-motion or DRS wont automate the VM's migration to other host. It is to be performed manually. HA monitors the host communication with the help of heart beats 1. Network heart beat 2. storage heart beat.

[@MathiasOttsen]

The vCenter HA option is not available...

[@wylie500]

Great video. Thank you!!

[@calvinnguyen1699]

Can i install the passive another vsphere

[@গ্যাঞ্জাম]

thank you for this video.

[@MrNuurAli]

How on earth do you create HA Network??

[@hosang9685]

The operation is not allowed in the current state. vCenter HA requires SSH daemon to be running. Enable SSH before you can configure vCenter HA.

[@hosang9685]

how fix it sir,

[@MajmeKriza]

You should make a full course installations from USB and later features/ configs on a single host. Just sain

[@tiagoolv5115]

Thanks!

[@UdaySingh-im4hd]

See If viewers like you videos and find it useful they will obviously like n subscribe. You do not have to waste time in making special requests.

[@dengrt]

Good video and explanation but as a non-native English speaker I sometimes have difficulty understanding some words just because you talk so fast which results in a less optimal pronounciation of the words. I see someone else mentioned the same thing a year ago, and I realise this video is years old but I'm just putting it out there...

[@VMwareArenavideos]

Sorry about that

[@stephend3961]

This is very confusing, it feels like you jumped in the middle of things and did't explain any of the base installation and layout before the point in this youtube tutorial, it would have made it easier to understand for me if you could have said/shown which ESXi system by name are which in the HA environment, it looks like the vcenter is in neither of the ESXi installations to me which is very confusing; so some explanation of your layout what they are beforehand would have added a great deal of understanding. The way I understand what the environment is supposed to be is: three ESXi hosts in three environments, one vCenter installation on one of the ESXi hosts (I would assume the primary), I would assume the DNS/DC server would also go onto the primary(active) server, each would use their own datastore (all it what you will), then create the HA environment -- So this was kinda confusing.

[@StreamingF1ydave]

Can't understand what you are saying. Slow down your speech, enunciate the words please.