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Is the Vmware-AAM service required for High Availability and DRS? Has it been renamed with ESX3.5 U3?

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Is the Vmware-AAM service required for High Availability and DRS? Has it been renamed with ESX3.5 U3?

On one of our ESX 3.5 U3 infrastructures, VMware Ha and DRS are operating fine, and the following list of services are started, notice VMware-AAM

Here is an output of an ESX 3.5 U3 system

  1. service --status-all |grep running

crond (pid 1900) is running...

gpm (pid 1851) is running...

vmware-hostd (pid 1942) is running...

ntpd (pid 1842) is running...

cimserver (pid 2452) is running...

snmpd (pid 1557) is running...

sshd (pid 4074 4037 1566) is running...

syslogd (pid 1321) is running...

klogd (pid 1325) is running...

At least one virtual machine is still running.

vmware-aam is running

VMware VMkernel authorization daemon is running (pid 1911).

vmware-vpxa is running

webAccess (pid 1880) is running...

openwsmand (pid 2534) is running...

xinetd (pid 1827) is running...

Now on our production VMware MCC cluster ESX 3.5 update 2 we cannot find "vmware-aam" that service but HA and DRS operate fine, and the logs in /var/log/vmware/aam indicate all is fine.

  1. service --status-all |grep running

crond (pid 2033) is running...

gpm (pid 1882) is running...

hpasmd is running...

cmathreshd is running...

cmahostd is running...

cmapeerd is running...

cmastdeqd is running...

cmahealthd is running...

cmaperfd is running...

cmaeventd is running...

cmaidad is running...

cmafcad is running...

cmaided is running...

cmascsid is running...

cmasasd is running...

cmanicd (pid 2703) is running...

cmasm2d is running...[ OK ]

hpsmhd (pid 1986 1955) is running...

vmware-hostd (pid 3502) is running...

ntpd (pid 1873) is running...

USAGE: OVCtrl start|stop|restart|START|STOP|enable|disable

USAGE: OVTrcSrv start|stop|restart

cimserver (pid 3536) is running...

Ramchecker is not running

snmpd (pid 1745) is running...

sshd (pid 1861 1447 1754) is running...

syslogd (pid 1684) is running...

klogd (pid 1688) is running...

At least one virtual machine is still running.

VMware VMkernel authorization daemon is running (pid 3472).

vmware-vpxa is running

webAccess (pid 1984) is running...

openwsmand (pid 3642) is running...

xinetd (pid 1854) is running...

I did some Google queries and could not find a definite answer

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The AAM service is required for HA - it is not required for DRS

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The AAM service is required for HA - it is not required for DRS

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