VMware ESX 5.5 High Availability did not work when network failed, how to configure HA so VMs failover when network fails?
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My customer has a VMware ESX 5.5 environment which consists of 5 hosts. One of the hosts lost network access to LAN and Management networks. None of the VMs failed over / migrated to the other hosts and became unavailable without network access until network access was restored. Checking the Cluster settings HA is enabled and Host Isolation is configured to Shut-Down. Now is this correct? How would I need to change the configuration so HA migrates VMs to another host in case this happens again?
Many Thanks,
Mark
My customer has a VMware ESX 5.5 environment which consists of 5 hosts. One of the hosts lost network access to LAN and Management networks. None of the VMs failed over / migrated to the other hosts and became unavailable without network access until network access was restored. Checking the Cluster settings HA is enabled and Host Isolation is configured to Shut-Down. Now is this correct? How would I need to change the configuration so HA migrates VMs to another host in case this happens again?
Many Thanks,
Mark
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I have included a screenshot of the log, thank you for explaining this. Just looking at the logs I can see that there may have not been enough time for the VMs to shut-down and restart on another host.
Am I correct by thinking that if a host cannot be contacted for 15 seconds, it will start shutting down all VMs. These VMs will then be restarted on another host?
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Am I correct by thinking that if a host cannot be contacted for 15 seconds, it will start shutting down all VMs. These VMs will then be restarted on another host?
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Well judging by the time between network errors in the log I can see that network connectivity has been restored in less than 15 seconds. This means that host would have not given the shut down command, so this is not necessary a config issue/fault. Thank you for clarifying this.
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VMs are restarted automatically in a HA event when its uncontrolled.
So there will always be a few minutes of downtime.
Were there any errors?
Check DNS Reverse DNS and Default Gateway is contactable for ALL hosts.