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Hello, 

Regarding to this question https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/disk-fault-tollerance-8822, What will happen to VMs in a cluster with RF2 when 1 drive failed on 2 different hosts? Will be any data loss or no? Will VMs reboot?

Thanks!

Hi Anton,

To understand clearly what you are asking is what will happen in an RF-2 cluster with all nodes running but with 2 disks failures on different nodes. Is that correct?

Hello, Alona. yes. I want to know what will be with data and VM?

There is a potential of data loss in this situation. There a risk that the both disks carry both copies of the same chunk of data making this data non-recoverable.

In terms of how this affects VMs, it depends on what kind of data that was. VMs that rely on that data or own it may hang, crash, fail to boot.

Alona, thanks

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