VMware vSphere 7.x Professional (VCP-DCV 2021) — Question 112

Using vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart an administrator places the most mission critical VM in the highest priority. After a host failure, the highest priority VM fails to restart while VMs in high priority restart.
What would cause this to occur?

Answer options

• A. There are insufficient cluster resources.
• B. Performance degradation VMs tolerate threshold is at default.
• C. VMware Tools is not installed.
• D. Proactive HA is disabled.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because Proactive HA needs to be enabled for the highest priority VMs to restart properly after a host failure. If Proactive HA is disabled, it can lead to scenarios where critical VMs do not restart even when other high-priority VMs do. Options A, B, and C do not directly relate to the orchestrated restart mechanism affecting the highest priority VM specifically.