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zorlacmc
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After a host failure view which VM's HA has restarted? (vSphere 5.5)

Hi,

Trying to do something really simple but getting a tad frustrated. We had a host fail yesterday and HA automatically restarted the VM's onto another host.

I'm trying to determine which VM's were restarted so I can check their health. I can log onto each VM and check the event logs but there must be a simple way to do this in VMware?

I've tried looking in the Tasks/Events on both the fat and web client but can't find those entries?

cheers,

CJ

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IIIusion
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Open Task & Events on the cluster and filter out all events initiated by system and required time. In Target column you will see affected VMs.

Don't forget to mark your topic resolved if you got right answer. Thank you! Regards Ray
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zorlacmc
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Thanks.

I think the issue is the events are being flooded with user authentication (information) messages and the log size is set to 1024KB. I manually rebooted a VM and was able to view that entry in the events, so it appears the logs are being overwritten too quickly.

Is it normal to see user authentication messages every minute?

CJ

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IIIusion
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Depends on how many users do you have. Also try to check the Task tab, it is usually has less tasks in it. Hope it will help.

Don't forget to mark your topic resolved if you got right answer. Thank you! Regards Ray
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