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The following notes will assist you to prepare for this objective:

HA has come a long way, don’t rely on legacy knowledge of HA to meet objective
Learn the newer features, pre-reqs and limitations of:
- Proactive HA
- Orchestrated Restart
- Fault Tolerance (FT) vSMP
HA can’t work around everything
- For example datastore connectivity loss or unable to satisfy reservation
Ensure you can explain the basic modes of DRS
- Disable, Manual, Partial, Full Automated, per-VM
DRS has come a long way
- Predictive DRS
- Limitations of vMotion have been overcome
What are the vMotion pre-reqs?
- CPU compatibility
- Network configuration
- Compatible virtual hardware
What virtual hardware options can and cannot be migrated with DRS?
SDRS often gets overlooked
- Remember it has 2 dimensions to optimization
  - Space utilization & I/O latency
  - What are you being asked in the question?

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