vms only would vmotion (High availabilty and DRS) in one or 2 specific hosts in a cluster with 6 host

[cy1989]

I would like to ask when forming a vmware cluster, for say, 6 hosts, could the vms only would vmotion (High availabilty AND drs) in one or 2 specific hosts.

[Gabrie1]

Usually not, but there can be two occassions where this happens:

- I've seen situations in a mixed ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 5.1 cluster where DRS would move all VMs to the 5.1 hosts untill the host had 98% memory load.

- When you start with (or move) all VMs on the two hosts and there are still enough resources on those two hosts, DRS doesn't have to move any VMs. But I would expect that each new VM would be moved to other hosts.

Gabrie

[IamTHEvilONE]

vMotion compatibility issues?  Say you are using Distributed Switches, if you forgot to register all hosts to those switches (and then doublecheck uplinks).

if this is a vCloud Director cluster, ensure that the host is enabled and prepared to enable the vsla_fence module (vMotion requirement too).

If this has nothing to do with vCloud Director, then you might want to post in the appropraite forum.