Re: vSphere HA detected a possible host failure of this host

Hi,

Had the same issue with a lab created from cloned esxi hosts; Everything seemed ok until i tried to enable HA and than I got errors like:

Reconfigure vSphere HA host Operation timed out.

Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Unknown installer error

Network partitioned

HA disabled

After some hours I discovered that the vmknic had the same mac addresses which caused all the trouble; I found these links usefull:

     *     VMware KB: vmk0 management network MAC address is not updated when NIC card is replaced or vmkernel has duplicate MA…

     *     http://www.vhersey.com/2012/08/cloned-esxi-duplicate-vmk0-mac-addresses/

     *     Change the MAC Address of VMKNIC on ESXi 5 - Bonus Bits Wiki

Hope this will save some time,

Traian