I am not sure if this question has been answered or not. I tried googling the issue I am having with manual switchover and found nothing helpful. I have installed vCenter HB 6.5 recently for Proof of concept. I had to struggle a lot to get everything running. I was trying to test different scenarios with vCHB. Everytime failover happens all services starts normally except for vCenter server services. I looked at the vpxd.log and found ODBC errors. So I checked the ODBC setting and the server name was replaced with primary server name. I mannually changed that and everything worked. Then I decided to make the primary active and same thing happened. ODBC setting had secondary server name in it.
I know this setting is stored in the registry. Is there anyway to add that in exclusion somewhere so that name does not change.