VMware, Inc.
AUTOMATIC RECLAMATION OF RESERVED RESOURCES IN A CLUSTER WITH FAILURES

Abstract:

When a failure occurs at a host in a cluster of hosts in a virtualized computing environment, virtualized computing instances that were running on the failed host are restarted on the active host(s) in the cluster. Resources to enable the restart of the virtualized computing instances are made available by powering off virtualized computing instances that are running on the active hosts. Determination of which virtualized computing instances to power off and to power on can be performed based on power off settings and restart priority levels that are configured for the virtualized computing instances.