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When this event occurs, VMware HA will identify the failure of the host and will attempt to restart the protected
virtual machines on a functional host.
Figure 22.
Checking Virtual Machines
First, use the vSphere Client to examine the virtual machines hosted within the cluster. In this example, we are
going to cause the system tm-pod1-esx01.tmsb.local to fail. You need to check the virtual machines in your
environment and ensure that at least one is online on the host that you are going to fail.
Figure 23.
Removing Power from a Host
