Disabling VMware HA at a cluster level
You can disable VMware HA if you do not want VMware HA to restart the virtual machine in case of a heartbeat failure. In some cases, VMware HA restarts the virtual machine even if VMware HA is disabled at the VMware cluster level. This may occur if the VMware HA settings are set incorrectly. Use the following steps to correctly disable VMware HA.
To disable VMware HA
- From the vSphere Client, display the cluster in the inventory.
- Right-click the cluster and select Edit Settings.
- In the left pane of the Cluster Settings dialog box, select VM Monitoring.
If VM Monitoring does not appear, select Cluster Features and then in the right pane, check Turn on VMware HA.
- In VM Monitoring drop-down list, select Disabled to disable virtual machine monitoring and application monitoring.
- In the left pane of the Cluster Settings dialog box, select Cluster Features.
- In the right pane, clear the Turn on VMware HA check box.
- Click OK.
SOMETIME YOU NEED TO DO THIS BECAUSE YOU GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR WHEN STARTING A VM.
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