HA works differently on a VSAN cluster than on a non-VSAN cluster.
- When HA is turned on in the cluster, FDM agent (HA) traffic uses the VSAN network and not the Management Network. However, when a potential isolation is detected HA will ping the default gateway (or specified isolation address) using the Management Network.
- When enabling VSAN ensure vSphere HA is disabled. You cannot enable VSAN when HA is already configured. Either configure VSAN during the creation of the cluster or disable vSphere HA temporarily when configuring VSAN.
- When there are only VSAN datastores available within a cluster then Datastore Heartbeating is disabled. HA will never use a VSAN datastore for heartbeating as the VSAN network is already used for network heartbeating using the Datastore for heartbeating would not add anything,
- When changes are made to the VSAN network it is required to re-configure vSphere HA.
ESXi Isolation – VM with no underlying storage