Hi Everyone,
Is it possible that Admission control would allow a VM to be powered on when there are no slots available? I am not talking about HA initiating a failover, but manually powering on a VM from the vSphere client..
My current lab settings are:
-vCSA 5.5
-5 x Testing VMs
-3 x ESXi 5.5 hosts with 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM each.
- Admission Control Policy = Host Failures the cluster tolerates = 1
- Fixed CPU slot size = 2000 MHZ (yeah i know this is huge, but I am doing this to force one slot per ESX host since the "hidden Resources" RP from each ESXi host is providing 3800 MHZ only)
-So, 3 total slots, 2 used, 1 Failover, with 2 powered-on VMs.
It was my understanding that once you run out of slots, admission control should not allow you to MANUALLY power on new VMs. I might be doing something wrong but in my case I am able to power on 2 aditional VMs with 0 slots available. I am attaching some screenshots for reference.
Is there anything I might be missing?
Thanks in advance.