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  • 1.  Guest fail over in the event of a host failure

    Posted May 11, 2012 08:48 PM

    New to the community and so forgive me if I post in the wrong group.

    I have a ESXi HA cluster, running Enterprise plus with DRS. I was curious to know if in the event Host 1 goes down will all the guests on that host move to host 2 automatically and the redistribute once it comes back up? If not, what do I need to setup to get this to happen.



  • 2.  RE: Guest fail over in the event of a host failure

    Posted May 12, 2012 07:24 AM

    KimbleSky wrote:

    I was curious to know if in the event Host 1 goes down will all the guests on that host move to host 2 automatically and the redistribute once it comes back up?

    Yes, if Host 1 goes down then the VMs running on this host will go down too, but will be restarted on some other host after around 15 seconds.

    Once Host 1 comes back up the DRS feature will redistribute VMs back if it is needed.



  • 3.  RE: Guest fail over in the event of a host failure

    Posted May 12, 2012 08:21 AM

    Actually the failback is not gonna happen automatically for this DRS can help you. Enable the DRS on cluster then DRS will do the load balancing.



  • 4.  RE: Guest fail over in the event of a host failure

    Posted May 12, 2012 09:09 AM

    Ranjna Aggarwal wrote:

    Enable the DRS on cluster then DRS will do the load balancing.

    He has already DRS enabled so this will not be needed.



  • 5.  RE: Guest fail over in the event of a host failure

    Posted May 15, 2012 03:37 AM

    If DRS is already enabled on the cluster then try to create should affinity rule that rule in like these vm should run on that host