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MrVmware9423
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VMware Infra Restart Priority

Dear team,

I have below list of VMware Infra VMs , just want to know what will be the restart priority for these VMs during ESXi host failure.

AD

ADC

Inventory

MSSQL

SSO

UpdateManager

vCenter

regards

Mr VMware

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N0bo
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Depends of your HA Admission Control setting . If they are default all VMs have got  Medium .

You can change this in Cluster Settings -> HA->VM Options .Set what priority best suits to your needs

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MrVmware9423
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Thanks Nobo,

that's what I want to know what will be the restart priority for these VMs, which VM wil have hive highesh priority and which will have medium priority.

Need ur assistance on the same.

regards

Mr VMware

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N0bo
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My assumption for restart priority is

Highest

AD

ADC

MSSQL

Medium

SSO

Inventory

UpdateManager

vCenter

But this very rough , you better can set this based on your environment and upstream and downstream dependencies

Also you can have a look on Duncan vSphere High Availability (HA) Technical Deepdive - Yellow Bricks

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Texiwill
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Hello,

Not unless you set them up that way by hand as vCenter/ESXi does not know what is running within the VM, nor does it understand your personal/organizations naming convention. Actually, in many cases you may also want to not only set priority but order.

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