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Troubleshooting Tips For Common HA Errors

I thought since there are lot of questions on the VMware Community forums pertaining to HA errors I would document a list of troubleshooting tips:

Check to make sure DNS is configured properly
Check to see if you can resolve DNS
Check DNS records
Make sure you are using FQDN’s
Check your /etc/hosts file
Make sure your using lower case
Check Service [...]

HA Error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA Agent on the host’

Please refer to the following post for troubleshooting HA Errors.
We recently just changed an IP on our second service console in ESX. After this we changed the DNS record to reflect the new IP. We then re-configured the ESX host for HA, and received the following error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA [...]

VMware HA algorithm Skewed

After upgrading our 3.5 ESX host at work. I noticed that the Current Failover Capacity had decreased from four to one. This was a major drop considering we only upgraded the host to 3.5. So wondering what could have caused this I scrolled google ,but found very little info except for a post stating that [...]