Background / Setup
I've got a fresh install of vCenter Server 5.1 and associated components.
I've taken all steps (as far as I can tell) to enable FT, and it worked the first time (yanked a power cord and watched a VM keep working -- an awesome feeling, by the way).
The steps I took were:
- Create an HA cluster with two servers
- Add an additional Virtual VMkernel NIC to handle FT traffic on each host
- Ensured that all hosts have access to multiple network storage devices (EMC and netapp).
- On a VM, changed the CPU/MMU Virtualization option to "Use Intel VT-x/AMD-V For Instruction set virtualization and software for MMU virtualization"
- Right-clicked on the VM and selected "turn On fault tolerance". This completed successfully.
Again, this worked.
Problem
Now, however, in the VM menu, after all hosts have come back on-line the option is again to "turn On Fault tolerance" (I thought once on, it would stay on?)
Additionally, if I click to turn fault tolerance on again, I receive the message "The virtual machine is running in a monitor mode that is incompatible for fault tolerance." However, selecting VT-x/AMD-V is what fixed this problem last time before my initial test that worked, and it is still selected in the menu.
Questions
- Is this a bug in the display, and the machine is still fault tolerant?
- Is this something I need to reconfigure each time?
- Once a machine has been configured for fault tolerance, does it remain in that mode perpetually? My guess would be that it should, but this experience makes me question it.
Update: More information (potential lead?)
To make matters more interesting, I just tried the following:
- Set CPU/MMU on the VM back to "Automatic"
- Rebooted the VM
- Set the CPU/MMU back to the intel setting that worked the first time
- Rebooted the VM
- Clicked "Turn Fault Tolerance on"
- ...and received the same error.
Thanks!