Before enabling Proactive HA on clusters, ensure that the following conditions are met:
A cluster with DRS enabled is created and configured in the vCenter console. To enable DRS on a cluster, see the VMware documentation.
All hosts that are managed with or without SNMP Trap in OMEVV.
NOTE It is recommended to use hosts that are managed with SNMP Trap.
Enable SNMP events on the iDRAC settings page for all the hosts present in the cluster.
Steps
In
vSphere Client, expand
Menu>Inventory, and then select
Hosts and Clusters.
All the hosts and clusters are displayed in the left pane.
Select a cluster, in the right pane, go to
Configure>Services and click
vSphere DRS > EDIT
Select
vSphere DRS, if not selected.
Select
Configure > vSphere Availability > Proactive HA > Edit
The
Edit Cluster Settings page is displayed.
On the
Edit Cluster Settings page, select
Proactive HA
In the
Failures & Responses section, from the drop-down menu, select
Manual or
Automated automation level.
For the
Remediation, select quarantine mode, maintenance mode, or a combination of both quarantine and maintenance mode based on severity status (Mixed mode). See the VMware documentation for more information.
Click
Providers and select
Dell Inc as a provider for the cluster.
Click
SAVE.
Next steps
After Proactive HA is enabled on a cluster, OMEVV initializes Proactive HA health and status and reports them to vCenter. Based on the health update notification from OMEVV, the vCenter server performs the manual or automatic action that you have selected for remediation.
On receiving healthy events, admin must manually move hosts which are in Maintenance Mode to
Exit Maintenance Mode.