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VMware HA Failover

I currently have a VSphere 5.0 Update 1 Cluster with HA turned on. Host monitoring is turned on.Cluster settings are set to VM Restart Priority Medium, host isolation response is to leave powered on.  VM Monitoring Status (VM Monitoring) is set to disabled.

In the event of an HA event (host failure) will the VMs restart on the HA host if VM monitoring is disabled?
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Yes - HA is a host-level failure availability feature; VM monitoring is a subset of HA for individual VMs. So, for example, if a VM bluescreens, after a certain time interval of HA hosts NOT receiving 'heartbeats' via VMware Tools from the VM, the VM will be restarted ON THE SAME HOST. VMs on a host that has failed will of course be restarted on remaining working hosts.

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