DRS and Automatic Startup & Shutdown Mutually Exclusive?

[AustinPowers]

I have a client with 4 ESX 3.5 hosts, using HA & DRS. We want to configure VM auto startup & shutdown with the hosts, so potential power problems are gracefully handled. And several of the VMs must be booted in a specific order. How can we do this? Seems like if we specify startup order on individual hosts, and then a VM gets moved to another host by DRS, the startup order is blown.

[LarsLiljeroth · Accepted solution]

HI

This option is only working for "stand alone" hosts. So in a Cluster it will not work.


// Lars Liljeroth

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[AustinPowers]

I was afraid of that. Thanks for the quick answer.

[AustinPowers]

Lars - two more questions re: startup/shutdown.

· What does the Default Shutdown Delay actually mean? If it is set to 60 seconds, does that mean ESX will wait 60 seconds between each individual host shutdown? So server A shuts down after 60 seconds, server B 60 seconds after server A completes shutdown, server C 60 seconds after server C completes shutdown, etc.?

· What triggers the ESX host to begin the VM startup & shutdown procedure? Is it simply a host shutdown command from the VI Client?

Thanks.

[LarsLiljeroth]

Hi

Yes that is excactly how it is.

The guest shutdown is triggered by ESX shutdown. To if you do a shutdown now from the console you will se it starts shutting down guests.

The start i dont know how that works.

// Lars Liljeroth

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[jackychenrlc]

Hi

Regarding this question as subject, does it geting improvement in vSphere 4.1 or vSphere 5.0?