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Citrix XenServer: High Availability Quick Start Guide Contents What is XenServer High Availability? 3 Enabling High Availability 3 Increasing the Maximum Failure Capacity for a Pool 7 Additional Reading 8 Page 2 What is XenServerXenServer High Availability? With High Availability enabled, if one of your enabled, if one of your hosts fails, its VMs restart automaticallyautomatically on other hosts in the same pool. If the pool master fails, ool. If the pool master fails, High Availability automatically selects a new automatically selects a new host as the master from any host in the poolfrom any host in the pool. High Availability works by creating a failure plan High Availability works by creating a failure plan High Availability works by creating a failure plan (that is, by calculating how many hosts can be (that is, by calculating how many hosts can be (that is, by calculating how many hosts can be restarted based on the priorities you set).you set). The number of hosts that can be restarted is based The number of hosts that can be restarted is based on the on the available resources (CPU, memory) in the pool. As yavailable resources (CPU, memory) in the pool. As yavailable resources (CPU, memory) in the pool. As you specify the restart priority for VMs, ou specify the restart priority for VMs, ou specify the restart priority for VMs, XenServer evaluates the resources required to startXenServer evaluates the resources required to startXenServer evaluates the resources required to start each VM. When there are not enough resources each VM. When there are not enough resources each VM. When there are not enough resources to restart