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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide –
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Next, remove the power from one of your hosts. By looking at the hosts within the cluster, you will see that
VMware HA will detect the failure of the host and generate an alert.
Figure 24.
Failure Detection by VMware HA
By examining the events, you will see messages similar to the ones demonstrated in the preceding figure
validating that VMware HA has detected the failure.
Figure 25.
Virtual Machine View of a Cluster After Restart Attempt
After a failure of a host has been detected, HA will attempt to restart the virtual machines that were running on
the failed host on other available hosts within the cluster. Go back to the virtual machine view of your cluster and
notice that the virtual machines that were previously on the failed host are now online on other hosts.