The HA host elected to talk to vCenter and keep watch on protected VMs and secondary hosts; mounting the most datastores helps a host win.
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Terms in this definition
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
Related terms
- network partition
A management network fault splits an HA cluster into groups of hosts that cannot reach each other; only the group holding a VM's primary host keeps protecting it.