VM migration is not triggered after a NIC goes down under a ZSphere HA policy

Issue

Use this article to troubleshoot cases in which VM migration is not triggered after a NIC goes down under a ZSphere HA policy.

Symptoms

• After a NIC is manually brought down in the environment, VM migration is expected but not triggered.
• The scenario is used to demonstrate or verify high availability policy functions.

Environment

• Product: ZVF
• Version: 4.x
• Component: ZMigrate
• Affected object: HA
• Scenario: High availability issues. Confirm the current version, deployment topology, storage type, and operation timeline.

Possible causes

• Manually bringing down one NIC does not necessarily meet HA trigger conditions.