Thanks a ton !! . Really appreciate the quick response John. Please do let me know when the xapi-document gets updated.
Thank you once again.
PANKAJ
From: John Else
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:54 PM
To: Pankaj Kumar Biswas; xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-API] ha-restart-policy =1, 2, 3 invalid for latest version of Xenserver
> In Xenserver 6.0 (boston release) ha-restart-policy we cannot set to 1,2 or 3 ...only we can make it to best-effort and restart..
>
> Is it true?? If yes may I have the reason to do so?? Do we have any documentation regarding that??
Hi Pankaj,
The HA API was changed in XenServer 6.0 – there is a new VM field “order”, which is used together with ha-restart-priority to define a VM’s HA behaviour.
Where previously you would have set a VM’s restart priority to 1, you would now call:
xe vm-param-set uuid=<vm-uuid> ha-restart-priority=restart order=1
The order field can hold any non-negative 64 bit integer, and VMs with a lower order will be restarted first after an HA failover.
It looks like the administrator’s guide still refers to the old API – I’ll see about getting this updated.
Thanks,
John
