Which two characteristics describe vSphere HA? (Choose two.)

vSphere High Availability (HA) is a key feature designed to enhance the reliability and availability of virtual machines (VMs) in a VMware environment. It works by restarting VMs on other hosts within the cluster in the event of a host failure, ensuring minimal downtime.

One of the characteristics of vSphere HA is its capability to restart VMs on unaffected hosts when there are failures in the underlying infrastructure, such as datastore accessibility issues. This means that if a particular host goes down and the VMs on that host cannot access the datastore, vSphere HA will automatically restart those VMs on other hosts that have access to the datastore. This functionality is crucial for maintaining service continuity and minimizing disruption caused by hardware or software failures.

In addition to the ability to respond to host failures, vSphere HA does not maintain a secondary VM at all times, which disqualifies the option mentioning a secondary VM to protect against data loss. Furthermore, vSphere HA does not inherently provide load balancing or archiving for inactive VMs, as these functionalities pertain more to other products or features in the VMware ecosystem, such as DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) or storage optimization tools.

Thus, the characteristic of vSphere HA includes the ability to restart VMs on