Hi Team,
I am trying to trigger APD HA response i.e. VM's should restart on other hosts in the cluster (with access to storage) however it is not working. Has anyone had a chance to trigger APD HA response in lab ?
I have disabled DRS and only running HA.
I see in events stating APD seen however VM's failover to other hosts is not happening.
Any suggestions here ? Thanks
How are you triggering the APD? Does the APD get declared according to the log files? And how is HA configured?
Hi Duncan,
Thank you for replying
I have attached snippet for cluster config. APD & PDL both are enabled. I see APD/PDL message on esxi event tab
In my lab I have openfiler and running the setup in VMware workstation. I have software iscsi adapter
To generate APD / PDL ; I have tried below steps
1) run below command +++ remove the iscsi nics from iscsi storage port binding + disabled management nic to access storage (open filer) ---- did not help
esxcli iscsi session remove -A vmhba65
2) as I am running in VMware workstation there is no vlan configured ; I intentionally entered vlan number 22 to stop storage communication ----- did not help (( this step used to work for me in previous vsphere versions ))
3) did not have iscsi port binding ; from the management network I am accessing openfiler ; removed storage IP from dynamic and static adapter binding ------ did not help
any suggestion what else I can try here
I am running vSphere 7 GA in my lab
Just to be clear: when the connection fails, it will take 140 seconds before an APD is declared. When the APD is declared, it will take another 3 minutes normally before HA takes action. This is something people tend to forget, so in total a failover will take place after 5 (!) minutes.
You should check FDM.log to see why the failover did not occur, usually the master node should have the info you are looking for.