What benefit does VMware High Availability (HA) provide?

VMware High Availability (HA) primarily provides the benefit of automatically restarting virtual machines (VMs) on other hosts in the event of a host failure. This capability is essential for ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime. When a host becomes unavailable due to hardware or system failures, HA detects this condition and leverages the remaining active hosts within the cluster to restart VMs that were running on the failed host. This automated recovery process greatly reduces the impact of downtime on applications and services running in the virtual environment, allowing organizations to maintain high availability for critical workloads.

In contrast, the other options relate to different aspects of virtualization that do not directly pertain to the primary function of VMware HA. For example, faster deployment of new virtual machines concerns provisioning processes, while enhanced security focuses on protection measures for VM data and applications. Improved network speed between VMs relates to network performance optimization, which is separate from the high availability of the virtual machines themselves.