6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Availability
- Contents
- About vSphere Availability
- Business Continuity and Minimizing Downtime
- Creating and Using vSphere HA Clusters
- Providing Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines
- vCenter High Availability
- Plan the vCenter HA Deployment
- Configure the Network
- Configure vCenter HA With the Basic Option
- Configure vCenter HA With the Advanced Option
- Manage the vCenter HA Configuration
- Set Up SNMP Traps
- Set Up Your Environment to Use Custom Certificates
- Manage vCenter HA SSH Keys
- Initiate a vCenter HA Failover
- Edit the vCenter HA Cluster Configuration
- Perform Backup and Restore Operations
- Remove a vCenter HA Configuration
- Reboot All vCenter HA Nodes
- Change the Appliance Environment
- Collecting Support Bundles for a vCenter HA Node
- Troubleshoot Your vCenter HA Environment
- Patching a vCenter High Availability Environment
- Using Microsoft Clustering Service for vCenter Server on Windows High Availability
- Index
VMware vCenter
®
HA Alarms and Events
If a vCenter HA cluster is in a degraded state, alarms and events show errors.
Problem
Table 4‑4. The following events will raise VCHA health alarm in vpxd:
Event Name Event Description Event Type Category
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently healthy
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently healthy
com.vmware.vcha.cluster.st
ate.healthy
info
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently degraded
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently degraded
com.vmware.vcha.cluster.st
ate.degraded
warning
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently isolated
vCenter HA cluster state is
currently isolated
com.vmware.vcha.cluster.st
ate.isolated
error
vCenter HA cluster is
destroyed
vCenter HA cluster is
destroyed
com.vmware.vcha.cluster.st
ate.destroyed
info
Table 4‑5. The following events will raise PSC HA health alarm in vpxd:
Event Name Event Description Event Type Category
PSC HA state is currently
healthy
PSC HA state is currently
healthy
com.vmware.vcha.psc.ha.h
ealth.healthy
info
PSC HA state is currently
degraded
PSC HA state is currently
degraded
com.vmware.vcha.psc.ha.h
ealth.degraded
info
PSC HA is not monitored
after vCenter HA cluster is
destroyed
PSC HA state is not being
monitored
com.vmware.vcha.psc.ha.h
ealth.unknown
info
Table 4‑6. Cluster Status Related Events
Event Name Event Description Event Type Category
Node {nodeName} joined
back to the cluster
One node joined back to
the cluster
com.vmware.vcha.node.joi
ned
info
Node {nodeName} left the
cluster
One node left the cluster com.vmware.vcha.node.left warning
Failover succeeded Failover succeeded com.vmware.vcha.failover.
succeeded
info
Failover cannot proceed
when cluster is in disabled
mode
Failover cannot proceed
when cluster is in disabled
mode
com.vmware.vcha.failover.f
ailed.disabled.mode
warning
Failover cannot proceed
when cluster does not have
all three nodes connected
Failover cannot proceed
when cluster does not have
all three nodes connected
com.vmware.vcha.failover.f
ailed.node.lost
warning
Failover cannot proceed
when vPostgres on Passive
node is not ready to
takeover
Failover cannot proceed
when Passive node is not
ready to takeover
com.vmware.vcha.failover.f
ailed.passive.not.ready
warning
vCenter HA cluster mode
changed to {clusterMode}
vCenter HA cluster mode
changed
com.vmware.vcha.cluster.
mode.changed
info
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