Refer to the Exhibit. An administrator manages a High Availability (HA)/Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)- enabled cluster and has configured the affinity rule shown in the Exhibit. Which two…

HA only enforces placement restrictions for 'Must' (hard) rules - a 'Should' (soft) rule is a preference hint for DRS and is explicitly ignored by HA during failover, so HA can and will use any available host.

When a VM-Host affinity rule is configured as a 'Should' (soft) rule rather than a 'Must' (hard) rule, HA ignores the rule entirely during failover and will place the VM on any available host, including hosts outside the designated host group. This is by design so that VM availability is not sacrificed for placement preferences during a failure event.

Option C references 10.21.38.106, which is the host in the configured Host Group, but DRS VM-Host affinity rules operate at the Host Group level as a whole rather than pinning a VM to one specific host within the group, and the Should rule further means this is only a best-effort preference.

The IP address in option D is 10.21.28.106, which is a different address from the host configured in the Host Group (10.21.38.106). Because this host is not a member of the affinity rule's host group, DRS will not attempt to place or keep the Marketing VM on this specific host.