Today I added some vSphere 5.0 u1 hosts in a new created cluster, the SAN will be delivered next week so I didn’t have central storage, to finish my new cluster setup I configured HA and DRS. After configuring HA I received this warning message:

The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than required: 2

Solution:

To (temporary (until the SAN is installed)) hide the warning message I configured the HA – Advanced Option:

1. Log in to vCenter Server
2. Right-click the cluster and click Edit Settings
3. Click VMware HA > Advanced Options
4. Under Option, add an entry for das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore
5. Under Value, type: true

More information: VMware

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Sander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Lead (Sr.) Consultant by UNICA ICT Solutions. Sander has over 15 years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization and modern worksplace.

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