CPU Affinity Menu Missing?

[ShaneWendel]

I've looked at most of my VMs and none of them display the CPU affinity menu. Under Advanced CPU all I show is the HT menu. I have a VM that was moved from an ESX 3.0.2 host that won't vmotion because it says it has CPU or memory affinities set. Is there a parameter I have set to make these menus appear?

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Shane Wendel, VCP

[RParker]

Probably have to shut down VM, move it back to ESX 3.02 and change the CPU affinity.

[ShaneWendel]

These were copied over with Converter. I can't really move them back.

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Shane Wendel, VCP

[RParker]

Well I haven't used this feature in a long time, but I don't see this option either. another option is simply shut down the VM, create a NEW VM (remove the old from inventory) and point it to existing disk and use same parameters, because I don't see these options any longer.

[Troy_Clavell]

If your VM is in a cluster, you will not see these options.

...but it's done by going to the resource tab, advanced CPU when you edit settings of the VM. In a cluster you will only have the Mode Option

If not in a cluster, you will see where to change the option to "no affinity"

[ShaneWendel]

I commented this line out in the .vmx file:

sched.cpu.affinity = "3"

Doesn't really explain where the menu went though.

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Shane Wendel, VCP

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[Dave_Mishchenko]

So is the host you moved it to part of a cluster?

[ShaneWendel]

Yes it is part of a cluster, I converted it from an older standalone host that I wasn't the admin of.

I guess I never really noticed that affinity wasn't available on a clustered host. I knew it would make vmotion impossible, but so do alot of other things that ARE accessible on a clustered host. It also doesn't make sense for the client to not display something that could changed. The client should at least recognize that affinity was already set.

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Shane Wendel, VCP

[Hrrflck]

I had the same "problem", I thought it was related to the VT bit, but turning it on didn't make any difference. So I read here about the "part of a cluster" part and on one of my clusters I did have the affinity tab and on some others I didn't. Turns out it was the Cluster DRS setting, setting it to manual or partially automated enables the affinity tab. Fully automated disables the tab.