Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting the VM restart priority for an HA cluster


Setting restart priorities for individual VMs will help VMware HA to determine which VM should be restarted when an ESXi host fails. In this recipe, we learn how to configure the VM restart priority for an HA cluster.

How to do it...

The following procedure explains how to set/modify VM restart priority settings for an HA cluster:

  1. From the vCenter's Home inventory, navigate to the Hosts and Clusters view.

  2. Select the cluster and navigate to Manage | Settings | vSphere HA and click on Edit.

  3. In the Edit Cluster Settings window, click on Host Monitoring to expand and view its additional settings.

  4. Use the VM restart priority drop-down menu to choose the Disabled, Low, Medium, or High priority setting.

  5. With the planned VM restart priority option selected, click on OK to confirm the changes.

How it works...

The restart priorities set are relative. HA will restart VMs with the highest priority first. If the priority is set to Disabled for a VM, then in the...