Hi Andrew,
Afaict, there should be manual intervention to resume a 'paused vm' in any storage domain even if VM is marked as "HA"..
Also, I failed to understand the setup you have, that said, you mentioned:
" resuming a VM from a paused state on top
of NFS share? Even when the VMs are marked as HA, if the gluster
storage goes down for a few seconds the VMs go to a paused state and
can never be resumed"
Do you have NFS storage domain configured by specifying "gluster server ip" and "volume name " in place of "server" and "export" path ?