A vSphere 6 High Availability cluster has been configured with default settings. Four virtual machines in the cluster have been configured with these priorities: Prod-DB. High Prod-Email: High Prod-VC

1 override is insufficient because even with an optimal cluster default, at least 2 VMs (Prod-VC and Dev-VDI) must be individually overridden to reflect their non-default priorities.

By changing the cluster-level default restart priority to High, Prod-DB and Prod-Email inherit that priority with no per-VM override required. Only Prod-VC (Medium) and Dev-VDI (Low) deviate from the new cluster default, so exactly 2 VM Override definitions are needed.

3 overrides would only be necessary if the cluster default remains at Medium, requiring separate overrides for Prod-DB, Prod-Email, and Dev-VDI.

4 overrides are unnecessary since the cluster-level default priority can absorb at least one priority group, eliminating the need to override every VM individually.