VMware vSphere 7.x Professional for Service Providers — Question 19

A vSphere administrator uses a Dedicated Failover Hosts Admission Control Policy in a cluster. An ESXi host fails and vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs onto the dedicated failover hosts. The hosts have insufficient resources.
What happens to the VMs?

Answer options

• A. vSphere HA restarts VMs in another cluster.
• B. vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs on other hosts in the cluster.
• C. vSphere HA powers down the VMs.
• D. vSphere HA suspends the VMs until a host is available.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because vSphere HA will attempt to restart the VMs on other available hosts in the cluster when the dedicated failover hosts lack sufficient resources. Options A and C are incorrect as they describe actions that do not occur in this scenario, and option D is wrong because vSphere HA would not suspend the VMs; it seeks to restart them on available resources first.