Could I please confirm what I should expect to see in a 2 host HA cluster if one of the hosts is shutdown cleanly without vMotioning any running guests?
We have a 2 host cluster stretched across 2 locations (P4000 syncronous storage) with each location having its own independent UPS.
The UPS has monitoring software which can put a host into Maintenance Mode or shut it down.
We only have vSphere Standard so don't have DRS so can't evacuate the guests automatically before putting the host into Maintenance mode.
So it seems the next best option would be to simply cleanly shutdown the host - my understanding is that doing this will cleanly shutdown the guests that are running on it, but will HA fire them up on the remaining host or will it simply see that they were shutdown cleanly and leave them shutdown?
It seems a fairly simple situation but I'm struggling to understand quite how vSphere will handle it.