vSphere HA also provides the ability to configure all the above settings on a per-VM basis. If certain virtual machines need to be recovered in a special way, or more forceful, the cluster-wide settings can be overridden for specific virtual machines as needed.
Setting these overrides is optional and is environment specific—Everpure has no specific recommendations concerning overrides.
To configure VM overrides, click on the cluster in the vCenter inventory, then the Configure tab then the VM Overrides section in the side panel that appears. Click Add to create an override.
Many of these settings are described in the previous sub-sections. But there are also some new specific settings (some of the features are unique to vSphere 6.5 and later):
- DRS Automation level—this is enabled if vSphere DRS is turned on and can override the cluster DRS automation level for this VM.
- VM restart priority—the important of the virtual machine to be restarted. The higher the setting the more priority given to that VM to be restarted.
- Start next priority VMs when—dictates what vSphere should wait to see to view a restart priority group as fully rebooted and ready.
- Additional delay—how long should vSphere wait after the previous priority group completes before starting on the next one.
- Or after timeout occurs at—specify how long it should wait if the event it is waiting for to being starting the next priority group to respond.