Some VMs starting up after cold boot, unsolicited ?!?!

[JaapL]

Hi all,

I 've got a small lab set up with trial ESXi 4.x with latest updates and patches.

On the moment I 'm testing HA with some strange results.

As mentioned above some VMs start up without having configured to do so.

1. At the host configuration tab, virtual machine startup/shutdown, I 'v only marked vCenter to automatically start up

2. Cluster features

- Turn on VMware HA

3. VMware HA

- Enable Host minitoring

4. Virtual machine options

- VM restart priotity: low/high

- Host isolation response: shutdown

5. VM monitoring

- Enable VM monitoring

Virtual machine settings

- VM monitoring: low/medium

The stupid thing is that other VMs with the same settings do NOT start up.

All VM's were shutdown properly.

Any ideas?

Greetz Jaap

[JaapL]

Hi Anatoly,

I only have vCenter starting automatically.

The other VMs are disabled to control what I want to do.

Thanx nevertheless,

Jaap

[AnatolyVilchins]

Good. I think I know what are you looking for:

Configuring HA Task Fails or Virtual Machine Failover Does Not Happen

iSCSI Software Support Department

[JaapL]

Hi Anatoly,

HA is working fine as fa as I 've tested.

The point is the following.

Since I have a home lab I shutdown all ESXi hosts and software SANs (Starwind).

When I boot up the next time some of the VMs startup without being configured to do so.

(see previous entries).

Greetz Jaap

[KVLad]

never mind

[AnatolyVilchins]

I still think that you need to check HA settings.

iSCSI Software Support Department

http://www.starwindsoftware.com

[JaapL]

Hi Anatoly,

Are there more HA settings then mentioned in the first entry p 2/3/4/5?

Greetz Jaap

[AnatolyVilchins]

Here you go:

Automating High Availability (HA) Services with VMware HA

iSCSI Software Support Department

http://www.starwindsoftware.com