Hi all,
I have a few remote sites with one ESX 5.0 host running a couple VM's. I usually enable HA on the one host cluster so if the host crashed it would start the VM's back up. Is this necessary on a one host cluster or will a crashed host restart VM's anyway?
no, you would not enable HA. look to the VM Startup/Shutdown options.
with a one host cluster, HA/DRS have no value. You'll need atleast two hosts to utilize HA. So, with a single host, then host goes down, so do the VMs. You can use the virtual machine startup/shutdown options though.
RIght. I know they'll go down, but I was wondering if I needed to enable HA to have the VM's auto start up once the host comes back online.
no, you would not enable HA. look to the VM Startup/Shutdown options.
Ah! I never used those settings before since I usually have multiple hosts. Thanks!