Hi Scott

Cannot answer the first question but with regards to the second question within the infrastructure client one of the options is startup. Here you can specify which virtual servers to autostart with module and delay interval

Hope this helps

Ismail

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This is really two question as I noticed a possible configuration error on my part. We has a couple of SRE deployed and router was reloaded. This caused the SRE to reload, which I believe there is a command to stop that behavior (please provide). The other issue was that the VM's did not restart and had to be started manually. Is there a way to restart the VM's on the SRE bootup?

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Scott,
To answer your first question. Did you power cycle the router or just do a software reload by issueing a reload commaond on the router? If it is a power cycle the SRE modules will also under go a reboot but if it is a reload command on the IOS the SRE modules should not undergo a reload.

Let us know which one of the above you tried.

Thanks,
Radhikah

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Hi Scott,

There is a way to do this from vSphere client. Have you tried doing it before? If not, here are the steps;

1. From the vSphere client click on to the host that has the VMs you want to start automatically.

2. Then go to 'Configuration' tab. In this tabbed pane, to the left there is hardware and software section.

3. In the software section, there will be 'Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown'. Click 'Properties' (top-right corner) which will open a pop up.

4. There will be an option to check 'Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system'.

5. Check it and then move the individuals VMs (that you want to start automatically) up to 'Automatic Startup' option. Use 'Move up' option. When you are done, click 'Ok' to save changes.

Let me know if you have trouble doing so.

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Soctt,
As far I know a software reload from the router should not trigger a reload of the SM's. What version of IOS are you using and do you have any special "hw-module" configurations configured.

Can you give us the out put of show running-config?

Thanks,
Radhika

Apparently not on the latest revisions. Looks like I missed an upgrade. Would that make a difference?

IOS Version and shows normal reload:
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c2900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-3.T1.bin"
Last reload type: Normal Reload

SRE Version:
Service Module is Cisco SM1/0
Service Module supports session via TTY line 67
Service Module is in Steady state
Service Module heartbeat-reset is enabled
Getting status from the Service Module, please wait..
Cisco SRE-V Software 1.0.1
SRE-V Running on SMV

Module resource information:
CPU Frequency: 1862 MHz
Memory Size: 254920 MB
Disk 0 Size: 976 MB

No install/uninstall in progress

No local partition


interface SM1/0
ip address 10.8.159.50 255.255.255.192
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly in
service-module ip address 10.8.159.51 255.255.255.192
!Application: SRE-V Running on SMV
service-module ip default-gateway 10.8.159.50
service-module mgf ip address 10.8.159.150 255.255.255.192
service-module mgf ip default-gateway 10.8.159.145
!
interface SM1/1
description Internal switch interface connected to Service Module
switchport mode trunk

I thought there was some heartbeat command that had to be disabled to prevent the reload of the SRE with the router. I have dealt with early betas up to the current beta so I may be remembering old stuff. I know that with my current configuration the router reload does reload the SRE.

There is a command in IOS to disable the heartbeat:



service-module heartbeat-reset disable



However, this is not required to prevent a re-load of the module when the router is re-loaded. To confirm, the normal/default operation with the heart-beat reset enabled is that the SRE module should continue to run normally when the router is reloaded.



If you are seeing issues with the module being reloaded when the router is reloaded, we¿d really like to troubleshoot this further and validate if there is some underlying problem that needs to be fixed in IOS or SRE-V



Can you confirm which version of IOS and SRE-V you saw this problem with. Also, are you able to re-produce it using the latest IOS release and SRE-V 1.5?



Thanks,



John





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I thought there was some heartbeat command that had to be disabled to prevent the reload of the SRE with the router. I have dealt with early betas up to the current beta so I may be remembering old stuff. I know that with my current configuration the router reload does reload the SRE.
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