When operating with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM), what two statements explain the impact of disabling vSphere High Availability admission control? (Choos

This statement describes behavior when HA admission control IS enabled - with an active admission control policy, DPM respects the failover capacity reservation and will not place a host in standby if it would violate that reservation.

This describes behavior when HA admission control IS enabled - admission control prevents DRS from reducing available host capacity below failover thresholds, which includes blocking VM evacuations intended to power down hosts.

When HA admission control is disabled, DRS is no longer restricted from lowering available cluster capacity below any failover threshold, so it will fully evacuate virtual machines from a host and then allow DPM to place that host into maintenance or standby mode for power savings. This cooperative behavior between DRS and DPM is specifically what admission control gates when it is enabled.

With admission control disabled there is no enforcement mechanism to prevent DPM from powering down hosts even when doing so would leave the cluster unable to tolerate the configured number of host failures. DPM relies on admission control checks to honor failover requirements, so disabling admission control removes that constraint entirely.