Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster With ActiveCluster: Failure Scenarios

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Failure Scenarios

A core part of understanding vSphere HA and ActiveCluster is understanding how vSphere and ActiveCluster respond to failures. These failures are separated into two broad categories:

  1. Storage access lost. This could be due to the storage array failing, a pod going inactive, or loss of connectivity.
  2. Host failure. This could be due to the physical host failing, the hypervisor crashing, or network partitioning of the host.