Objective 9.1: Configure Advanced vSphere HA Features

Question 1

What are the four responsibilities of the master host?

Answer 1

1. Monitoring the state of slave hosts
2. Monitoring the power state of all protected virtual machines
3. Managing the lists cluster hosts and protected virtual machines
4. Acting as vcenter management interface and to the cluster and reporting the cluster health

Question 2

What is a liveness check?

Answer 2

The master host determines if the slave host is communicating with one of the datastores.