I am in the process of building a new 5.1 U 1 3 hosts cluster, and due to the fact that I don't use resource pools or limits on the VMs , I have opted to use the admission control policy "use dedicated failover hosts" (no slots sizes so best way to guarantee failover resources" , host3 is my dedicated failover host, host1 and hosts2 are my 'normal' hosts.
My question is this , when I get to the stage where I have VMs running on host1 and host2 , and I need to perform maintenance on either host , will putting host1 or host2 into maintenance automatically place the VMs onto host3 (if there isn't enough resource available on the other 'normal' host ?
Initial setup (VMs are sufficient big enough that the cannot all be run from 1 host)
Host1
-VM1
-VM2
-VM3
-VM4
Host2
-VM5
-VM6
-VM7
-VM8
Host3 (dedicated failover host)
Placing Host1 into maintenance mode
Host1 (maintenance mode)
Host2
-VM5
-VM6
-VM7
-VM8
Host3
-VM1
-VM2
-VM3
-VM4
Can anyone help explain ?