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SirHaschke
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‎07-25-2017 01:30 AM
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vSphere 6.0 -> Starting Order

Hello,
we use vSphere 6.0 Std. in a cluster with HA.

Today we had a crash from one ESXi server and the VMs starts on another one.

Is it possible to define an order that some machines (e. g. DC's, DB servers) starts earlier than other servers?


Thanks and regards    

Dennis

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virtualDD
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‎07-25-2017 02:04 AM
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Hi,

This is not possible on vSphere 6.0. Well, you can set priority groups but those are only for the poweron operation. Most environments can poweron more VMs at once than have been running on a host, so your vms would still boot up in a random fashion.

However with vSphere 6.5 VMware introduced the Feature "Orchestrated HA" which lets you define a boot order in case of a HA failover.

VMware Support communicated a soft-release date for vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for End of July / Start of August. So I'd suggest you look into that as soon as Update 1 rolls out.

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virtualDD
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‎07-25-2017 02:04 AM
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Hi,

This is not possible on vSphere 6.0. Well, you can set priority groups but those are only for the poweron operation. Most environments can poweron more VMs at once than have been running on a host, so your vms would still boot up in a random fashion.

However with vSphere 6.5 VMware introduced the Feature "Orchestrated HA" which lets you define a boot order in case of a HA failover.

VMware Support communicated a soft-release date for vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for End of July / Start of August. So I'd suggest you look into that as soon as Update 1 rolls out.

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