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Understanding Delay Time
There is a default delay of ten seconds between startup of virtual machines in a team. The delay time begins when you give a team a command: Power on; Power off; Suspend or Resume.
Power on and Resume operations for virtual machines occur in the order of the sequence shown in the Team Settings list, and include delays.
Power off and Suspend operations for virtual machines occur in the reverse order shown in the Team Settings list, and include delays.
To illustrate the default delay time, imagine you have a stop watch and are powering on a row of hardware PCs. Whenever ten seconds has passed on the watch, you press the power button of the next PC in the row. The stop watch alone determines your delay timing. Operating system boot time, services and application load time do not change the interval between pressing buttons. You don't care whether a machine has finished booting before the stop watch tells you to you start the next PC.
If this doesn't sound useful, you need to fine tune your startup sequence!
If a situation requires that your guest operating system finishes booting completely and launch an application or two before the next virtual machine does, you must manually determine the proper delay time based on your individual needs and software configuration.
If you have virtual machines that have interdependencies, you should determine a startup sequence with care. The ability of the startup sequence to meet sensitive timing requirements depends strongly on guest operating system, software applications and hardware on the host.
Experiment with your virtual machine configurations. Variables in your host and guest operating environments should be examined to prevent startup discrepancies that could disable virtual machine interaction.
Reduce host CPU load. Remove unnecessary background processes from host and guest.
Optimize guest operating system services and applications that affect your startup sequence.
Consider using LAN segments to prevent intra-team packet loss or interference from irrelevant network traffic.