How to Stop Restart VMs when the vm moving one Esxi Host to another if one of the Esxi host failed

[gsmanigandan]

I have created cluster and has been added host ESXA, ESX B into the cluster (HA, DRS Enabled).

Also created VM (1.21) in ESX A.while shutdown ESX A the VM went to ESX B afert restart.

My vm restart prirority is "High". Even I selected "disabled" option the vm went to shutdown mode.

What i need when Esxi host failure, VM should not restart while moving to another host.

Is there possible? If possible which option i need to select for my requirement?

My Testing Setup Details as follows:

1. 192.168.1.3 - Vcs(6.0)
2. 192.168.1.40 - Storage (Open Filer)
3. 192.168.1.11 – Esxi A (6.0)
4. 192.168.1.12 – Esxi B (6.0)
5. 192.168.1.21 - Windows 7(Client)

Please help to find above scenarios.

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

If I understand your question correctly, in the case of a host failure you want your virtual machine to keep running and not to be restarted. This cannot be done with VMware High Availability. The only solution VMware offers to have no downtime of your virtual machine is VMware Fault Tolerance (FT). If you enable a virtual machine for FT a secondary copy of the vm is started on another host. This copy is kept in sync with the primary vm. If the host running the primary vm fails, the secondary vm takes over the role of the primary vm.