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In a vSphere HA enabled cluster, what happens if the master host is unable to communicate with a slave host over the management network?
A. The host is dropped from the cluster.
B. The master host uses datastore heartbeating.
C. A new master host is elected.
D. VM are rebooted by vSphere HA.
Correct Answer: D
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc_50%2FGUID-B9ACCE9B-A14D-4B2F-87EF-4B0A67ABDF58.html
B
The master communicates with slave over heartbeat, storage heartbeat and icmp to mgmt interface and only if the communication on all three ways fails, the slave is considered failed and the VMs are restarted.
B