Hello,
I have an issue that is quite bizarre. My cluster consists of 2 DL380G5s with 16GBs each and 2 quad core pCPUs. I have VMware HA enabled and I was trying to determine why failover did not occur when I lost one node. VMware HA is configured to allow up to 1 host failure and VMs can start if availability constraints are violated. Everything is the default settings otherwise.....
I can start several VMs after a reboot of the single node but after a bit of time I get 'Not Enough Resources'. Now this message occurs until I bring the 2nd node back into the cluster. This seems very odd to me. It is for this reason I have VMware HA capability so why is it telling me I have not enough resources? When I clearly have plenty of resources. Currently using about 1Ghz out of 8x2.333Ghz and 5.33GB out of 16GB of memory.
I thought perhaps it was an issue with the HA cluster so I rebuilt it per the KB Article (i.e. deleted the old cluster and created a new one, adding back in the host). I was able to boot VMs for a short while, then once more got into this state. I have also gone through and verified all the resources on all powered on and powered off VMs are set to the default and 'Normal' settings. One other item I have 6 Resource Pools all 'Normal & Expandable' plus 2 Resource Pools under one of them. All others have no child resource pools. It makes no difference in which resource pool I attempt to boot a VM even the parent pool of the cluster gives the same error 'Insufficient Resources'
I just fixed the other node, brought it in and all is now fine, but this is not proper. I should be able to still boot VMs anytime.... I used to be able to do so until I upgraded to Update 2. This is indeed a puzzler for me, everything looks just fine and works for a short period after boot, which is in itself peculiar.
I can reproduce this by placing the 2nd node in Maintenance mode as well.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization
I have an issue that is quite bizarre. My cluster consists of 2 DL380G5s with 16GBs each and 2 quad core pCPUs. I have VMware HA enabled and I was trying to determine why failover did not occur when I lost one node. VMware HA is configured to allow up to 1 host failure and VMs can start if availability constraints are violated. Everything is the default settings otherwise.....
I can start several VMs after a reboot of the single node but after a bit of time I get 'Not Enough Resources'. Now this message occurs until I bring the 2nd node back into the cluster. This seems very odd to me. It is for this reason I have VMware HA capability so why is it telling me I have not enough resources? When I clearly have plenty of resources. Currently using about 1Ghz out of 8x2.333Ghz and 5.33GB out of 16GB of memory.
I thought perhaps it was an issue with the HA cluster so I rebuilt it per the KB Article (i.e. deleted the old cluster and created a new one, adding back in the host). I was able to boot VMs for a short while, then once more got into this state. I have also gone through and verified all the resources on all powered on and powered off VMs are set to the default and 'Normal' settings. One other item I have 6 Resource Pools all 'Normal & Expandable' plus 2 Resource Pools under one of them. All others have no child resource pools. It makes no difference in which resource pool I attempt to boot a VM even the parent pool of the cluster gives the same error 'Insufficient Resources'
I just fixed the other node, brought it in and all is now fine, but this is not proper. I should be able to still boot VMs anytime.... I used to be able to do so until I upgraded to Update 2. This is indeed a puzzler for me, everything looks just fine and works for a short period after boot, which is in itself peculiar.
I can reproduce this by placing the 2nd node in Maintenance mode as well.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization
