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4. Check the networks are properly configured and named exactly as other hosts in the cluster.
otherwise, you will get the below errors while installing or reconfiguring HA agent.
5. Check HA related ports are open in firewall to allow for the communication
Power off All the VMs are powered off , when the HA detects that the network isolation
occurs
Shut down All VMs running on that host are shut down with the help of VMware Tools, when
the HA detects that the network isolation occurs.If the shutdown via VMWare tools not
happened within 5 minutes, VMs power off operation will be executed. This behavior can be
changed with the help of HA advanced options. Please refer my Post on HA Advanced
configuration
Leave powered on The VMs state remain powered on or remain unchanged, when the HA
detects that the network isolation occurs.
How to add additional isolation address for redundancy?
By default, VMWare HA use to ping default gateway as the isolation address if it stops receiving
heartbeat.We can add an additional values in case if we are using redundant service console
both belongs to different subnet.Lets say we can add the default gateway of SC1 as first value
and gateway of SC2 as the additional one using the below value
1. Right Click your HA cluster
2. Goto to advanced options of HA
Select the maximum number of host failures that you can afford for or to guarantee fail over.
Prior vSphere 4.1, Minimum is 1 and the maximum is 4.
In the Host Failures cluster tolerates admission control policy , we can define the specific
number of hosts that can fail in the cluster and also it ensures that the sufficient resources
remain to fail over all the virtual machines from that failed hosts to the other hosts in cluster.
VMware High Availability(HA) uses a mechanism called slots to calculate both the available and
required resources in the cluster for a failing over virtual machines from a failed host to other
hosts in the cluster.
What is SLOT?
As per VMWares Definition,
A slot is a logical representation of the memory and CPU resources that satisfy the
requirements for any powered-on virtual machine in the cluster.
If you have configured reservations at VM level, It influence the HA slot calculation. Highest
memory reservation and highest CPU reservation of the VM in your cluster determines the slot
size for the cluster.
How the HA Slots are Calculated?
I have written a post about how the HA slots are calculated.
How to Check the HA Slot information from vSphere Client?
Click on Cluster Summary Tab and Click on Advanced Runtime Info to see the the detailed HA
slots information.
Lets take an example, you are performing network maintenance activity on your switches
which connects your one of th ESX host in HA cluster.
what will happen if the switch connected to the ESX host in HA cluster is down?
It will not receive heartbeat and also ping to the isolation address also failed. so, host will think
itself as isolated and HA will initiate the reboot of virtual machines on the host to other hosts in
the cluster. Why do you need this unwanted situation while performing scheduled
maintenance window.
To avoid the above situation when performing scheduled activity which may cause ESX host to
isolate, remove the check box in Enable Host Monitoring until you are done with the network
maintenance activity.
How to Manually define the HA Slot size?
By default, HA slot size is determined by the Virtual machine Highest CPU and memory
reservation. If no reservation is specified at the VM level, default slot size of 256 MHZ for CPU
and 0 MB + memory overhead for RAM will be taken as slot size. We can control the HA slot
size manually by using the following values.
There are 4 options we can configure at HA advanced options related to slot size
das.slotMemInMB Maximum Bound value for HA memory slot size
das.slotCpuInMHz Maximum Bound value for HA CPU slot Size
das.vmMemoryMinMB Minimum Bound value for HA memory slot size
das.vmCpuMinMHz Minimum Bound value for HA CPU slot size
For More HA related Advanced options, Please refer my blog post
How the Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity admission
control policy works?
In the Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity admission control
policy, We can define the specific percentage of total cluster resources are reserved for
failover.In contrast to the Host Failures cluster tolerates admission control policy, It will not
use slots. Instead This policy calculates the in the way below
1.It calculates the Total resource requirement for all Powered-on Virtual Machines in the cluster
and also calculates the total resource available in host for virtual machines.
2.It calculates the current CPU and Memory Failover capacity for the capacity.
3.If the current CPU and Memory Failover capacity for the cluster < configured failover capacity
(ex 25 %)
4.Admission control will not allow to power on the virtual machine which violates the
availability constraints.
How the Specify a failover host admission control policy works?
In the Specify a failover host admission control policy, We can define a specific host as a
dedicated failover host. When isolation response is detected, HA attempts to restart the virtual
machines on the specified failover host.In this Approach, dedicated failover hist will be sitting
idle without actively involving or not participating in DRS load balancing.DRS will not migrate or
power on placement of virtual machines on the defined failover host.
What is VM Monitoring status?
HA will usually monitors ESX hosts and reboot the virtual machine in the failed hosts in the
other host in the cluster in case of host isolation but i need the HA to monitors for Virtual
machine failures also. here the feature called VM monitoring status as part of HA settings.VM
monitoring restarts the virtual machine if the vmware tools heartbeat didnt received with the
specified time using Monitoring sensitivity.
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