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alex2875
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HA with one node down, second node restart ALL VM also one's already started

Hi,strange thing here. Have a 2 nodes HA, with shared storage. Some vm's on 1st node others on 2nd node. All is working fine. If i brutally detach node 1 or node 2, the other node push restarting all VM's also the one's that it has on him ad are correctly working..why? I'm using vsphere 6.

Thank you for any ideas.

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npadmani
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that's really a very strange behaviour.

Try to make it simple, keep only 1 VM per host. and try to fail one of the host, ideally it should only start VM which was originally running on failed host to that surviving host. But any existing VM in there should continue to run as it is.

just an additional thought, what about, VM Monitoring, is it enabled, keep that disabled while you try to do above test.

and have you configured VMCP in your vSphere HA, let's say your storage communication is facing some trouble, that's making VMs to restart.

Narendra Padmani VCIX6-DCV | VCIX7-CMA | VCI | TOGAF 9 Certified
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