vROps Cluster without a Load Balancer (gotchas)

Product Version - vRealize Operations 7.5

While it is far from recomended to deploy a vROps Cluster without a loadbalancer there are circumstances where this is done.

Recently helping a customer deploy a couple of simple issues cropped up that were not immediately obvious as to why they were issues.

Unable to connect to Master Node when expanding the cluster

We hit this issue and initialy it was a question mark moment there were no firewalls in the way and network connectivity was good end to end.