VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - In vSphere HA, set the restart priority policy for the vCenter Server appliance to high.

Products

• VMware
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: In vSphere HA, set the restart priority policy for the vCenter Server appliance to high.

Resolution

Solution
Design Justification: vCenter Server is the management and control plane for physical and virtual infrastructure. In a HA event, vCenter should be available first before other management components come online to ensure the rest of the SDDC management stack comes up cleanly.

Design Implication: If the restart priority for another virtual machines is set to highest, the connectivity delays for management components will be longer.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

Note: To search for additional information on this design decision please search on the design decision text in https://docs.vmware.com/. For example https://docs.vmware.com/en/search/#/%22Enable%20Network%20I%2FO%20Control%20on%20all%20distributed%20switches.%22

Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

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