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2 Replies Last post: Oct 12, 2008 11:11 AM by tom howarth
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migrated vm to different physical host but moves back to orig

Oct 12, 2008 7:56 AM

Click to view tdubb123's profile Enthusiast tdubb123 215 posts since
Feb 15, 2008

I shutdown vm my and migrated the vm to a different physical host on the same cluster but when i startup the vm it went back to the same host

any idea?

Reply Re: migrated vm to different physical host but moves back to orig Oct 12, 2008 8:16 AM
Click to view weinstein5's profile Champion weinstein5 3,999 posts since
Nov 19, 2005
Is it a DRS cluster? - Remember DRS will activate at two points - it will select the node of the cluster the vm should start on and move a vm when it needs resources - so if you have your DRS cluster in automatic mode - when you power on the vm DRS will start on the node that has the most available resources in the cluster - so if you have migrated the vm to another host when you power it on and another host has more resources it will start on that host -

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Reply Re: migrated vm to different physical host but moves back to orig Oct 12, 2008 11:11 AM
Click to view tom howarth's profile Champion tom howarth 5,779 posts since
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As Wienstein has already mentioned ae your hosts in a DRS cluster set to automatic. this would definately explain the behaivour.

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