When VCHA is enabled, a new OS user “vcha” is created and used for the file based replication.
This morning I experienced an issue on one of my VCHA setups (but not the other) where replication was failing when I arrived into the office.
Update 23/01/2017 – This is a real issue and not a once off. VMware Engineering are aware.
There are a few gotcha’s and known issues that I have found with vCenter HA. Hopefully the following will be of use and avoid the need to engage VMware Support to resolve.
For more on VCHA please see my previous post which also includes short videos of both deployment methods.
The vCenter Server Appliance has come a long way from it’s first iteration way back with vSphere 5.0. A moment of silence for the VCSA 5.0 with embedded DB2 database.
With the vSphere 6.5 release, the vCenter Server Appliance not only gains 100% parity with it’s Windows counterpart, but actually now exceeds it with some exclusive features.
You can interpret the fact that the VCSA is now getting exclusive features however you want to.
Please don’t ask me “Is the Windows vCenter going away?” – because I honestly don’t know the answer.
Continue reading “vSphere 6.5 Feature Preview: vCenter Server Appliance”
have you tried reinstalling? 