Is required for high availability and the DRS Vmware-AAM service? Has it been renamed with ESX3.5 U3?

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Is required for high availability and the DRS Vmware-AAM service? Has it been renamed with ESX3.5 U3?

On one of our ESX 3.5 U3 infrastructure, VMware Ha and DRS work very well, and the following list of services are started, view VMware-AAM

Here is an exit of an ESX 3.5 U3 system

  1. service - status-all | grep running

crond (pid 1900) is running...

gpm (pid 1851) is running...

VMware-pass (pid 1942) is running...

ntpd (pid 1842) is running...

cimserver (pid 2452) is running...

snmpd (pid 1557) is running...

sshd (pid 4074 4037 1566) is running...

syslogd (pid 1321) is running...

klogd (pid 1325) is running...

At least a virtual machine is still running.

VMware-aam is running

VMware VMkernel authorization daemon is running (pid 1911).

VMware-vpxa is running

webAccess (pid 1880) is running...

openwsmand (pid 2534) is running...

xinetd (1827 pid) is running...

Now on our production VMware MCC cluster ESX 3.5 Update 2 we do not find "vmware-aam" this service but HA and DRS work very well, and the logs in/var/log/vmware/MAA indicate that everything is fine.

  1. service - status-all | grep running

crond (pid 2033) is running...

gpm (pid 1882) is running...

hpasmd is running...

cmathreshd is running...

cmahostd is running...

cmapeerd is running...

cmastdeqd is running...

cmahealthd is running...

cmaperfd is running...

cmaeventd is running...

cmaidad is running...

cmafcad is running...

cmaided is running...

cmascsid is running...

cmasasd is running...

cmanicd (pid 2703) is running...

cmasm2d is running... [OK]

hpsmhd (1986 1955 pid) is running...

VMware-pass (pid 3502) is running...

ntpd (pid 1873) is running...

USE: Departure from OVCtrl | stop | restart | START | STOP | activate | Disable

USE: Departure from OVTrcSrv | stop | restart

cimserver (pid 3536) is running...

Ramchecker is not running

snmpd (pid 1745) is running...

sshd (pid 1861 1447 1754) is running...

syslogd (pid 1684) is running...

klogd (pid 1688) is running...

At least a virtual machine is still running.

VMware VMkernel authorization daemon is running (pid 3472).

VMware-vpxa is running

webAccess (pid 1984) is running...

openwsmand (pid 3642) is running...

xinetd (pid 1854) is running...

I did a few Google queries and couldn't find a definitive answer

The service of AAM is required for HA - it is not required for DTH

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