Should the virtual computer restarts when ESX loses power?
We are currently testing out redundancy ESX and we found is that one of our ESX goes down (loses power) the VM restarts and arrive on an another ESX.
These should be restart? They transferred just not on the other ESX without a reboot? I need to know if it works as intended or if it is a problem of config on our end.
Thank you!
Yes, it's exactly what should happen. When your host died suddenly, all CPU/memory status is lost. Therefore, they need to be restarted. Note: HA is not VMotion.
In future versions, you will be able to run a second instance of critical VMs on the intermediate hosts, and in case of failure of the primary host, VM secondary will pick up where the other left off... a bit like RAID-1 for the virtual machine.
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