Disabling host monitoring
Host monitoring is generally disabled during network maintenance activities that would affect the host's management network connectivity. This is done to prevent unnecessary triggering of the host isolation response configured for the HA cluster. Host monitoring can be disabled by editing the cluster settings.
How to do it...
- Log in to the vSphere Web Client with the relevant privileges. Navigate to the specific cluster |
Configuration |
vSphere Availability
. - Click on
Failures and Responses
and uncheckEnable Host Monitoring:

How it works...
All HA activity is disabled until the setting is enabled again. But why do this when you can just disable HA? This setting reflects a transient state and conserves the effort to completely unconfigure HA across the cluster and essentially saves some cycles.