We have a 2 unit Hyper-V cluster and I was wondering if there is a way to auto load balance the two? If one unit is restarted then I need to manually reassign some of the VMs to the unused hypervisor, not a huge burden but it'd be nice not to have to worry about. We're running a mix of Win7, S2008 and S2012.
Thanks
That doesn't make sense. A reboot of one of your Hyper-V hosts should trigger a migration of any clustered VM's on that host to the other Hyper-V host. If the VM's are not clustered then you're seeing the expected behavior. Failover Clustering won't migrate a VM that isn't clustered. If you want those VM's to be migrated then you'll need to cluster them.
I think in your situation what you want to do is do a Pause > Drain Roles and then after you are done with the node (rebooting, etc) and want to "load balance" again you could do a Resume > Fail Roles Back
Just wait. 2019 has that at elast as automatic option. It will only do so when load is high one one unit, but it will then move them around.
Also there you can set preferred nodes, so you can distribute them and they will get back to their default node. Not sure 2016 has that (only use cluster in an experimental 2019 at the moment).
