Thanks
the remianing agents will nominate one of the remaining hosts as the primary.
you mean master election (which needs to know host object id in the cluster and number of connected datastores and ...) is done by agents themselves ? and it needs no intervention of vCenter ?
and another thing. when the host with vCenter machine on it and master role fails, how the other agents find that the master is away? is it not the job of vcenter to notice and tell the others when master is not functioning? what i doubt is that: if slave hosts loose connectivity with master, they think they are themselves faulty and should introduce themselves as isolated or partitioned and it is the duty of the vcenter to find out when the master is not functioning ! can you please correct me here