ClusterFailoverActionInitiatedEvent is not displayed in the virtual machine event log during a vSphere HA event

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

 

• A vSphere HA failover occurs, and the virtual machine restarts.

• Even when checking the Events of the specific virtual machine, the event "vSphere HA initiated a failover action" (which indicates the initiation of the HA failover) cannot be found.

 

Cause

This behavior is by design. The event "vSphere HA initiated a failover action" (com.vmware.vc.HA.ClusterFailoverActionInitiatedEvent) is triggered at the Cluster object level. Therefore, it is not recorded in the event logs of individual Virtual Machine objects.

Resolution

To verify this event, please check the event log at the cluster level by navigating to:

[Cluster] > [Monitor] > [Tasks and Events] > [Events]

On the virtual machine side, only events specific to that VM are recorded, such as "vSphere HA restarted a virtual machine" (com.vmware.vc.ha.VmRestartedByHAEvent), which indicates that the restart has completed.