2V0-622 · Question #353
A vSphere HA cluster with four hosts has admission control configured to tolerate one host failure. Which statement is true if a fifth host is added?
The correct answer is D. CPU and Memory capacity will be set to 20%.. vSphere HA admission control recalculates its reserved capacity percentage based on total host count, so adding a fifth host reduces the per-failure reservation from 25% to 20%.
Question
A vSphere HA cluster with four hosts has admission control configured to tolerate one host failure. Which statement is true if a fifth host is added?
Options
- ACPU and Memory capacity will be set to 50%.
- BCPU and Memory capacity will be set to 30%.
- CCPU and Memory capacity will be set to 25%.
- DCPU and Memory capacity will be set to 20%.
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B12% (3)
- C8% (2)
- D77% (20)
Why each option
vSphere HA admission control recalculates its reserved capacity percentage based on total host count, so adding a fifth host reduces the per-failure reservation from 25% to 20%.
50% corresponds to a two-host cluster tolerating one failure (1/2), not a five-host cluster.
30% does not correspond to any standard 1/N host-failure calculation for a five-host cluster.
25% was the correct reservation with four hosts (1/4), but adding the fifth host changes the denominator and reduces the percentage to 20%.
When admission control uses the cluster resource percentage policy to tolerate one host failure, vSphere HA reserves 1/N of total cluster resources, where N is the number of hosts in the cluster. With five hosts, the calculation yields 1/5 = 20% for both CPU and memory capacity. Adding the fifth host causes vSphere HA to automatically recalculate and lower the reserved percentage from the previous 25% down to 20%.
Concept tested: vSphere HA admission control percentage-based reservation
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-C4F5F9AC-8EA9-4B3E-B7B1-9F3A2FF4FD25.html
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.