My Favorite vSphere H.A. Advanced Parameters

vSphere High Availability Parameters

das.usedefaultisolationaddress

Specifies if the gateway is to be used as the default isolation address. Value is either True or False
 
das.isolationaddress[...]

Dictates which ip is going to be used as the default isolation address.

das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore

 Removes the warning that appears if two datastores in common are not available.

das.heartbeatdsperhost 

Dictates the number of heartbeat datastores to be used. 2 is the default. 5 is the maximum. 

das.isolationshutdowntimeout

Determines how many seconds to wait before shutting down a vm if the host is isolated.  300 is the default.

das.slotmeminmb

Sets the slot size for memory to the specified value.

das.slotcpuinmhz  

Sets the slot size for CPU to the specified value.

das.ignoreRedundantNetWarning 

Remove the Warning when redundancy is not available for the management Network.

das.maxftvmsperhost

The maximum number of FT vms allowed per cluster. Default is 4.

das.maxresets

The maximum number of reset attempts by VMCP.


FDM Log Name

/var/log/fdm.log


FDM Startup Script

/etc/init.d/vmware-fdm {start/stop/restart}