Automatic Start Actions for a Virtual Machine

Hi ,
We configure some VMs on a cluster
the default setting of automatic Start action is set to Nothing
when the cluster is down of hyper-v service is stopped , once the problem is solved , All VM will be run as it was running before the problem happened
So What is different between the following options of automatic Start action
Nothing
Automatically start if it was running when the service is stopped
And do you know why it is st for standalone Host not for the cluster as per this thread

FYI - Automatic Start Actions in the settings of a VM are different once the VM is HA under Clustering. Since the job of Clustering and HA is to keep that VM running.
If you look here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181(v=WS.10).aspx#BKMK_Machine
You find this:
Automatic actions let you automatically manage the state of the virtual machine when the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service starts or stops. However, when you make a virtual machine highly available, the management of virtual machine state should
be controlled through the Cluster service. In this step, you reconfigure the automatic start action for the virtual machine.
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From within Virtual Machine Manager, bring up the Virtual Machine's properties:
Click "Hardware Configuration"
Click "Availability"
Click "High", "Medium", or "Low" to enable automatic start/restart or
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Screenshot from VMM 2012 for a VM running in a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster:
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Hi ,
I think there may be something unclear in my previous email. Ok, I will detail it.
If you make a virtual machine high available, the Automatic Start Action will not work after you perform a live migration. Which means the following setting will not be "failovered" to another host.
You should set this via the Cluster Manager by the following setting:
This is what I said:
If you change the configuration of a virtual machine, we recommend that you use the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in to access the virtual machine settings. When you do this, the cluster is updated automatically with the configuration changes. However, if
you make changes to the virtual machine settings from the Hyper-V Manager snap-in, you must update the cluster manually after you make the changes. If the configuration is not refreshed after networking or storage changes are made, a subsequent failover may
not succeed or may succeed but result in the virtual machine being configured incorrectly.
Thanks. Feel free to let me know if anything is unclear.
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Hi Aaron ,
yes I think there's a misunderstanding about the question .
When you say
"If you make a virtual machine high available, the Automatic Start Action will not work after you perform a live migration. Which means the following setting will not be "failovered" to another host."
you mean that it is supposed to work this way ?
I mean , If you make a VM HA with clustering is it an accepted behaviour that the setting of " automatic start action " ( not the stop action you posted the picture of ) is not maintaned after a live migration even if such setting is made through the failover
cluster manager ?
If you are telling me that this is what it is supposed to work I don't agree , because I wish I can have a way to set a priority in VM startup in the case of complete shutdown/reboot .
Working with vsphere as well this is possible and I thought it was the same with Hyper-v
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.:|:.:|:. tim
Hi Tim,
thanks for the reply. Sorry, but I had some other tasks to take care of, so I wasn't paying enough attention to this thread.
The part I quoted from your reply sounds exactly like the action I'd like to perform, but as you pointed out before this should not be possible.
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