Showing posts with label ha restarted this virtual machine. Show all posts
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Wednesday 17 February 2016

How to avoid unexpected VMs reboot?

Or, Common causes of unexpected reboot of Virtual Machines.
Or, VMware Event: HA rebooted the Virtual Machine
Or, Why to disable “VM Monitoring” in VMware vSphere Cluster setting?

Imp Note: Hey Guys, I have seen sometime that Virtual Machines are getting rebooted automatically and when you check Windows event logs, it will show you that the last reboot of the server was unexpected.

Definitely, there are multiple factors which can cause Unexpected Server reboot but I would suggest checking few Settings on your VMware Cluster as well. One of the factor that I have seen is, If you have enabled VM Monitoring Setting of the VMware Cluster, this will reboot your VM servers whenever VMware tool heartbeats are not received within a set time. 

Likewise, another component of VM Monitoring is Application Monitoring, which also cause VMs to be rebooted unexpectedly if it not receives the VMware tool heartbeats within a set time.

Its good to go ahead and disable the "VM Monitoring" option in VMware cluster.

To get it done, please follow the steps given below:

Login to vSphere Clientwith admin privilege > Right Click on your Cluster > Go to Edit Settings > Go to VM Monitoring> Under VM Monitoring drop-down menu, Select Disabled, as highlighted in below screenshot:















Reference KB (VMware): http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1027734

Cheers, its done now.