A vSAN administrator noticed that in the case of a preferred site failure in a vSAN stretched cluster, VMs having different restart priorities assigned to them are starting up automatically at almost the same time in the secondary site.
Which two steps should be performed to ensure that the VMware vSphere HA will proceed with the next VM restart priority only when the previous VM group has loaded the operating system? (Choose two.)
To ensure that VMware vSphere HA proceeds with the next VM restart priority only when the previous VM group has loaded the operating system, it is important to have VMware Tools installed on all VMs. VMware Tools provides the necessary information to detect the guest operating system's status accurately. Additionally, changing the VM dependency restart condition to 'Guest Heartbeats' ensures that the next VM restart group will only proceed when the guest operating system is running and responsive, as monitored by VMware Tools.
BC https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Availability-HA-FT-Discussions/Are-VMware-Tools-needed-in-HA/td-p/1408200 https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-cluster-ha-configuration/