Setting the VM restart priority for a HA cluster

VM restart priority, in conjunction with the previous configuration settings, ensure that critical workloads get precedence over other workloads. This can be fairly important in terms of how quickly a workload resumes and is of particular importance when admission control is enabled. Given a situation wherein you have 10 VMs to be restarted, 3 of them being critical workloads, by setting higher restart priority for the 3 VMs, we ensure that they get restarted first and they have a better probability of obtaining the reserved capacity of failover.

Getting ready

The restart priority is relative, hence it is important to differentiate the critical workloads from the rest. Unless...