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Cause
A vSphere HA agent can be in the Agent Unreachable state for several reasons. This condition most
often indicates that a networking problem is preventing vCenter Server or the master host from contacting
the agent on the host, or that all hosts in the cluster have failed. This condition can also indicate the
unlikely situation that vSphere HA was disabled and then re-enabled on the cluster while vCenter Server
could not communicate with the vSphere HA agent on the host, or that the ESXi host agent on the host
has failed, and the watchdog process was unable to restart it. In any of these cases, a failover event is
not triggered when a host goes into the Unreachable state.
Solution
Determine if vCenter Server is reporting the host as not responding. If so, there is a networking problem,
an ESXi host agent failure, or a total cluster failure. After the condition is resolved, vSphere HA should
work correctly. If not, reconfigure vSphere HA on the host. Similarly, if vCenter Server reports the hosts
are responding but a host's state is Agent Unreachable, reconfigure vSphere HA on that host.
vSphere HA Agent is in the Uninitialized State
The vSphere HA agent on a host is in the Uninitialized state for a minute or more. User intervention might
be required to resolve this situation.
Problem
vSphere HA reports that an agent is in the Uninitialized state when the agent for the host is unable to
enter the run state and become the master host or to connect to the master host. Consequently, vSphere
HA is not able to monitor the virtual machines on the host and might not restart them after a failure.
Cause
A vSphere HA agent can be in the Uninitialized state for one or more reasons. This condition most often
indicates that the host does not have access to any datastores. Less frequently, this condition indicates
that the host does not have access to its local datastore on which vSphere HA caches state information,
the agent on the host is inaccessible, or the vSphere HA agent is unable to open required firewall ports. It
is also possible that the ESXi host agent has stopped.
Solution
Search the list of the host's events for recent occurrences of the event vSphere HA Agent for the
host has an error. This event indicates the reason for the host being in the uninitialized state. If the
condition exists because of a datastore problem, resolve whatever is preventing the host from accessing
the affected datastores. If the ESXi host agent has stopped, you must restart it. After the problem has
been resolved, if the agent does not return to an operational state, reconfigure vSphere HA on the host.
Note If the condition exists because of a firewall problem, check if there is another service on the host
that is using port 8182. If so, shut down that service, and reconfigure vSphere HA.
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