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• Failover hosts
Alternately, you can specify particular hosts within the cluster that will be used as a preferred target host to
start any virtual machines that were protected on a failed host. In the event of a failure, vSphere HA will first
attempt to restart the protected VMs on these hosts before trying others. Additionally, vSphere HA prevents
VMs from being moved to these hosts, or powered on by the user or vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
(DRS) on these hosts.
Virtual Machine Options
Figure 17. Defining the Behavior of Virtual Machines for VMware HA
Select Virtual Machine Options from the left-hand navigation pane. Here, you can define the behavior of virtual
machines for VMware HA. The two settings you can edit are the VM restart priority and the Host Isolation response.
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