Hi Guys,
we had an outage today where one of our physical ESX Host died (we have 2 hosts in the VM cluster). HA/DRS unfortunately is not working as there's insufficient resources to automatically migrate the vms on the failed host across to the remaining host (another seperate issue that i wont address here)
when the hsot went down, the vms were left running, but were in a disconnected state (see attached). i've read that you can reassign vms to the other host by "browse to the datastore and right click on the vmx file and click Add to inventory and select the host." (ref: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/173314)
however when i did browse to the datastore, the option to "Add to inventory" was also greyed out. i suspect (please confirm) that it wwas because the Vm in question was still in the 'running' state. problematic, because in this disconnected/running state, i couldnt shut it down from vcentre gui (or from console, as host was dead)
can someone tell me how -if at all possible- i can migrate the vm to another host, whilst in the above described situation?
if not possible, for future situations where the host is lost, would i then best set the vm's to shut down? (would this enable me to reallocate the vms then?)
cheers