VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Set host isolation to Power Off and Restart VMs in vSphere HA.

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• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Set host isolation to Power Off and Restart VMs in vSphere HA.

Resolution

Design Justification: vSAN requires that the host isolation response be set to Power Off and to restart VMs on available ESXi hosts.

Design Implication: If a false-positive event occurs, VMs are powered off and an ESXi host is declared isolated incorrectly.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

VMware Validated Design (VVD) Bill of Materials