Hiho
A hopefully simple question googling or browsing the vmware forum didn't harvest me the answer
When putting a host into maintenance mode is the replica VM also migrated or do i need to unprotect it and migrate it manually?
and will there be downtime to the VM's using this replica?
The replica as a VM is not needed for the VDs to run. As long as virtual disks are available to the VDs everything is fine.
While the host with the (only) replica is in maintenance mode I would expect that it is impossible to roll out new VDs. So be careful if you use floating pools.
Best regards
Christian
When you put a host into maintenance mode that has a replica on it, the replica is migrated to another host in the cluster.
Mine does not seem to migrate and the migrate button is grayed out. Any idea on what to do?
Hi,
Placing host in maintenance mode should migrate replica from host to other host. Can you check open move power off VM, while placing host in maintenance mode,
Regards
Mohammed EMaad
I know this is a pretty old thread, but wanted to chime in that I had similar issues when placing a host into Maintenance Mode. You can run some cmdlets that'll unprotect the replica allowing to vMotion, but I didn't really want to go that route. I decided to initiate a reboot of the host and the replica then migrated over.