Comments on: HA isolation response “shutdown guest”

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:39:51 +0000

Rob I think you misunderstood my replu. If you set it to 0 than all vm’s will be powered down directly when the isolation response kicks in. if you have your isolation response set to “shutdown vm” instead of “power off vm” you’ll need to have a grace period before it’s being cut off power.

By: Rob Mokkink

Rob Mokkink — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:39:08 +0000

Thanks for the update, i had a feeling that it would work that way.
I will test it, to see if i can set it to 0. So that after a minute all vm’s will be shut down, when a ESX server is isolated.

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:37:14 +0000

if you have your isolation response set to “shutdown guest” than it can take up to 6 minutes before your vm’s are restarted! 1 minute for the detection and a default of 5 for the shutdown of the vm. if after 6 minutes the vm isn’t shutdown by the OS than VMware HA powers it off and restarts it on another host.

By: Rob Mokkink

Rob Mokkink — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:50:07 +0000

How does this setting affect the das.failuredetectiontime setting?
We are currently set it to 60000.
So after a minute the ESX server will shutdown all vm’s

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