An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three of the six nodes into that domain. A node that is a member of the fault domain fails. What is the expec

vSAN treats a fault domain as an atomic failure unit - if one node in the domain fails, the cluster marks the entire domain as unavailable, including its remaining two members. This design ensures that the storage policy engine enforces failure tolerance at the domain level, not the individual host level. As a result, the cluster must find capacity on nodes outside the failed domain to maintain policy compliance.

The remaining members are not protected or treated as operational - the whole domain is marked failed when any single member fails.

Non-member nodes are never automatically promoted into a fault domain; domain membership requires explicit administrator configuration.

HA would attempt to restart VMs on nodes outside the failed domain, not on remaining nodes inside it, since the entire domain is treated as unavailable.