I'm playing around with HA to see what happens to online vms when we break the network.
When I cause a fault on the management network the host goes into a 'Network Isolated' state then disconnects "host.com not responding"
Now I would have thought that HA would say, host x is not responding, I still have DS heartbeats, best I move the vms off to another host, however the online vms just sit there carrying on as normal on the now dead to vCenter host.
If we were to have an instance where a network admin smoked a live trunk port and knocked a host offline, how can we grab the affected vms and push them to another host? Should our default isolation response be shutdown, then we manually bring it back up on another host?
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Datastore heartbeating, we have set the cluster to "select any of the cluster datastores". Under cluster status, Heartbeat Datastores tab, I can see the elected DSs used for heartbeating, however unlike Duncan's, yellow-bricks article, we have nothing under "Hosts using Selected Datastores for Heartbeating"
Whats up?
Cheers
Brendan