Hi all,
I am a little bit confused (or just too stupid?).
I want to set up a DPM-enabled cluster of two ESXi 6.5 hosts running under VCSA 6.5 (latest updates installed).
I can right-click on my ESXi host (it is an old DELL T110) and set it to "stand-by" which works fine and the host powers off (or stand-by) and gets disconnected and shows as "Stand-By" in vCenter.
All fine so far. When right-clicking on the host an "Power On", vCenter tells me it is waking up the host but nothing happens. First, it stays at 10% and after some minutes the task switches to 25% where it stays for nearly forever. However, the ESXi host does not do anything. At least, it does not power on as I would have expected.
I met all needed items to configure it for power management:
- vMotion enabled and working between the two ESXi hosts
- physical NICs used on both ESXi hosts show "Enabled for Wake-on-Lan"
- vMotion is on the same layer network (no routers in between)
When I send a magic packet from a virtual machine (running on the second ESXi host) with the MAc of the ESXi host in question the host powers on immediately. So I assume I can rule out configuration issues on the ESXi host and on the physical network.
For me it looks like the ESXi host is not sending a proper WoL magic packet.
Anyone having an idea what I am missing?
Thanks, KNEBB