VM did NOt autostart after power cut

[scerazy]

I had a planned power cut exercise.

APC Powerchute Network Shutdown done great job, ESX servers shutdown clean (with all VM guest shutdown first, as per configuration VM Startup/Shutdown)

But on power on of the ESX the machines configured for auto startup did NOT even attempt to power on

Had to connect to ESX server & manually start them (in fact just the one VC VM)

Anybody any idea why this could be & how to sort it?

Could of course be as simple as ESX-1003352 - PATCH

Thanks

Seb

[IB_IT]

I think you answered your own question. Yes, this is a bug. If you do not have this patch installed on your hosts, then it's a good bet this is why the VMs did not start up. Double check your startup delay on the VMs and make sure it something reasonable (I think the default is 2 minutes).

[scerazy]

I have 150 sec on one server and 180 sec on a second server

That should be enough.

Also when I started VC by hand, all the other VM autostarted - is that normal?

Seb

PS

How is it that VMware released patch for this almost 2 years after the ESX 3.01 product?

Nobody noticed it before?