Windows 2008 R2 VM do not correctly restart after manual failover

I'm having a problem where my W2K8 R2 VMs are not stop / correct commissioning after a failover.

I have 2 servers in my group (2 x HP DL380 G7) running on ESXi 5.0.

The administration server is an HP DL180 G6 running VCenter 5.0.

I have two VMotion & configured HA.

All virtual machines are linking my drive (HP P2000) FC array and my two ESXs have access to LUNS configured on my disk array.

If we test failover HA...

What we do is, we have x amount of virtual machines running on ESX1 and an amount x of virtual machines running on ESX2.

Manually power on ESX2 shut down us to see if the virtual machines running on ESX2 migrate correctly ESX1.

The VMs TO migrate ESX1 after disabling ESX2.

But when they are migrated and restarted on ESX1, which VMs will tell you something on the lines of: "Windows has not shutdown correctly. You want to start in safe mode / normal mode / prompt etc. »

Someone has an idea what might be causing this? I never had this before.

I checked with one of my colleagues, and he has not seen it before either.

All virtual machines in question have the VMWare tools installed on them.

And for the monitoring of the virtual machine settings are for the 'VM' and 'Application Monitoring'.

Thanks in advance...

That is right.  An HA event will restart a virtual machine.  He cannot stop him from the accident.  Windows will crash.  The NTFS journal will usually protect file system issues, as it does with physical windows.  HA gives you just the protection against material defects, provides high availability, but not of fault tolerant, in itself.

VMware FT will run a vm on two different hosts at the same time to ensure protection against this, but you are limited by vCPU.

-KjB

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