How to enable HA in VMware ESX host from command line if HA enable fails in Virtual Center

I noticed on host running VMware ESX sometimes HA gets disabled because of network glitches, even trying it from Virtual Center client I wasn’t able to turn it on. I like playing with command line options when Virtual Center GUI fails to work. Here is a command that i used to enable HA back on my VMware ESX host.

Steps to enable HA by command line in VMware ESX host:

1. Login as root into ESX host using ssh :

2. Run service restart on ESX host for enabling HA:

One VMware management service restarts you can re-enable HA back

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