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VMware

08 Jun 2012

By Yendis

vSphere 5.0 HA restarting of VMs with no access to storage?

VMwareha, vsphere

I had a question today around the restart of VMs with no access to storage by HA. The question was if HA would try to restart the VM and time out after 5 times. With the follow up question, if HA would try again when the storage would return for duty. By default HA will try to restart a VM up to 5 times in roughly 30 minutes. If the master does not exceed it will stop trying. On top of that HA manages a “compatibility list”. This list will contain the details around which VM can be restarted and…

08 Jun 2012

By Yendis

Cool tool update: RVTools 3.3 released!

VMwaretools

Rob de Veij just published RVTools 3.3. I know many of you are using it and I definitely suggest downloading the latest version! RVTools has been downloaded more than 100.000, so definitely worth checking out if you had not so far! Here are the changes in this release: Version 3.3 (April, 2012) GetWebResponse timeout value changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes (for very big environments) New tabpage with HBA information On vDatastore tab the definition of the Provisioned MB and In Use MB columns was confusing! This is changed now. RVToolsSendMail accepts now multiple recipients (semicolon is used as separator)…