HA protected or not?

[MariusRoma]

Many VM in a vSphere 5 cluster are reported as HA "Unprotected" with the following message:

Unprotected
vShphere may attempt to restart the VM after a supported failure but is not guaranteed to do so
The VM is unprotected when the following conditions have been met:
VM is in a vSphere HA enabled cluster
VM powered on successfully after a user-initiated power on
vSphere HA has not recorded that the desired prower state for this VM is on

I looked for the meaning of the messages but I was unable to locate any explaination.

Is the VM protected or not?

How can I troubleshoot and solve this issue?

Regards

marius

[Rubeck]

What vSphere 5 version are you running? If it is 5.0 or 5.1 it might just be a cosmetic issue....

VMware KB: Virtual machine status changes from Protected to Unprotected

/Rubeck

[Shrikant_Gavhan]

Hi Marius,

Is your HA admission control set to DISABLE? Please check if your virtual machine fulfilling the HA criteria.

Thanks and Regards,

Shrikant Gavhane.

[ClintColding]

Check to make sure you're hosts are up to date.

VMware KB: Migrating virtual machine to another HA cluster changes the virtual machine state from Pr...

[suresh1180 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Try to disable and re-enable HA.