VMs in HA autostart all the time

[silbro]

Hello

I have a Proxmox Cluster with 3 nodes running proxmox VE 3.3. All the VMs I add to this HA are being autostarted even if I uncheck the box autostart and shut them down (after a few seconds they just get started again, I can see the task in the log). What could be a cause for this? If I remove them from being managed by HA and I shut them down, they stay shutdown. I don't think they should autostart all the time unless I check autostart. Maybe I want to shut one VM down for a reason. Is this the normal HA behavior?

sincerely and thank you for any information!

 

[spirit]

Hi,

use the stop button.

In Ha mode, it will stop HA then make a clean shutdown.

 

[silbro]

Hi,

use the stop button.

In Ha mode, it will stop HA then make a clean shutdown.

Your suggestion works Thanks a lot!

I always thought Stop is pulling the power plug, so I never tried that. Instead it shutdown nicely. Does this also work for all Windows OS?

 

[mir]

In HA mode stop means stop HA and shutdown while in non HA mode stop means unclean shutdown immediately.

 

[silbro]

In HA mode stop means stop HA and shutdown while in non HA mode stop means unclean shutdown immediately.

Ok I guess this is something to remember

Do you know how well this stop in HA works with Windows servers?

 

[mir]

If the windows server has install acpi support it should work.

 

[e100]

If the windows server has install acpi support it should work.

Don't remember what policies but there are group policies that can prevent ACPI shutdown from working so that should be checked too.
Also, I often find that I need to issue two ACPI shutdown requests to get a windows machine to actually shutdown.

 

[spirit]

for windows :

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Acpi_kvm