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Sure, but... I believe it was something like 4-5 pings when it was demo'ed to me... But I can be wrong, I don't remember exactly. Shutting down that VM and powering it back on the same host actually takes much shorter time than failover.
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open up the console of the VM server and simulate fail over it could (if its Windows) have startup selection that counts down from 30 seconds to boot into Recovery because of a dirty shutdown..<br />
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4-5 pings is vMotion and that's slow!<br />
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vMotion and VMware HA us different if you require faster fail over or HA look at FT or Fail over Cluster or other in VM HA and replication.
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also remember it takes time for HA to notice the host is down.<br />
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so how long after you have killed your host does it take BEFORE it attempts to start VM protected by HA
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HA does not reboot VM on other hosts, it's a COLD START-UP.<br />
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e.g. Power-Up.
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More then enough information given to answer authers question.<br />
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Hi guys - what the topic says.<br />
I'm preparing my VM env for production and that's one of the things I'm trying.<br />
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Without using Fault Tolerance, it takes 15-20 pings for the VM to automatically start on a different host.<br />
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I have a pretty beefy setup with 4 powerful hosts and Compellent so if the above is not right, I would suspect a wrong config rather than H/W bottleneck.<br />
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I'm still new to VM, please try to keep it simple.<br />
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Thanks
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Hi guys - what the topic says.
I'm preparing my VM env for production and that's one of the things I'm trying.

Without using Fault Tolerance, it takes 15-20 pings for the VM to automatically start on a different host.

I have a pretty beefy setup with 4 powerful hosts and Compellent so if the above is not right, I would suspect a wrong config rather than H/W bottleneck.

I'm still new to VM, please try to keep it simple.

Thanks

Expected downtime of VM in VMWare cluster after simulating H/W failure.

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