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host-HA vs VM-HA support (#324)
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HA features work with iSCSI or NFS primary storage. HA with local
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storage is not supported.
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HA-Enabled VMs will be restarted when it is detected that the VM is
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crashed beyond a shadow of a doubt. When the host it is running on is
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unreachable, either because of network issue or because it is crashed,
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CloudStack can not be sure the disk image of the VM is not still being
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accessed and will not restart the VM.
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Dedicated HA Hosts
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HA-Enabled Hosts
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This feature is only applicable to KVM clusters. It is not supported
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on for instance VMware or Xen. For those hypervisor types, the Host HA
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is left to the VMware-cluster or Xen-pool respectively.
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The user can specify a host as HA-enabled, In the event of a host
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failure, attemps will be made to recover the failed host by first
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issuing some OOBM commands. If the host recovery fails the host will be

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