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Disable Disk.AutoremoveOnPDL in a vMSC environment!
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Cluster Level
- das.heartbeatDsPerHost = 4
- das.maskCleanShutdownEnabled = true
Hosts level
- Disk.AutoremoveOnPDL = 0
- VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL= true
$hosts = get-cluster $clustername | get-vmhost
Get-VMHost $hosts | set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -name Disk.AutoremoveOnPDL -value 0
Get-VMHost $hosts | set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -name VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL -value true
VM Level
- disk.terminateVMonPDLDefault = true