What is true about HA Agent VMs?

What is true about HA Agent VMs?

What is true about HA Agent VMs?

A.
They are restarted on surviving nodes in the event of an HA failover.

B.
They have a 1-to-l association with Client VMs.

C.
They are tied to a specific ESXi host.

D.
They can be vMotion migrated in a DRS cluster.

Explanation:
* If a host stops unexpectedly, VMware HA does not start an ESX agent virtual machine on another host.



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Mohsin Alvi

Mohsin Alvi

ESX agent virtual machine …….
When ESXi put into the HA Cluster, a agent is installed on each ESXi server in a cluster that communicate the state of ESXi server to the master ESXi server. Agent is like a process like other processes in ESXi server. HA Cluster just protect the VMs, not the process hosted by ESXi Server

Tony

Tony

Actually, this blog states the opposite:

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/agent-vms.html

By “tagging” this virtual machine as an agent VM we ensure that this virtual machine gets powered on first in the case of a host failure. We do this to ensure the service is available before all other VMs start.

This is the current order which HA uses in case of a host failure and restarts need to occur:
■Agent virtual machines
■FT secondary virtual machines
■Virtual Machines configured with a restart priority of high,
■Virtual Machines configured with a medium restart priority
■Virtual Machines configured with a low restart priority