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the failed host on other available hosts within the cluster. Go back to the virtual machine view of your cluster - detect
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Next, remove the power from one of your hosts. By looking at the hosts within the cluster, you will see that VMware HA will detect the failure of the host and generate an alert. Figure 24. Failure Detection by VMware HA By examining the events, you will see messages similar to the ones demonstrated in the preceding figure validating that VMware HA has detected the failure. Figure 25. Virtual Machine View of a Cluster After Restart Attempt After a failure of a host has been detected, HA will attempt to restart the virtual machines that were running on the failed host on other available hosts within the cluster. Go back to the virtual machine view of your cluster and notice that the virtual machines that were previously on the failed host are now online on other hosts. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 31