I would like to apply Host-VM affinity/anti-affinity rules. Some of these referenced hosts are currently in maintenance mode.
Am I able to apply these rules while the hosts are in maint mode?
If not, am I correct in thinking that once the hosts are taken out of maint mode, then I can apply the affinity rules, and the system will apply these rules (migrating VMs etc. where it needs to)?
I've never tried creating a rule with hosts in maintenance mode. I can't see why it wouldn't work unless it does a check for host/cluster health at the time of invocation. VM/VM anti/affinity I suspect would be more like to work as you wouldn't be worrying about a host specifically - Affinity Policies
VM/host however being a 'must' rule may cause problems if it cannot enforce it on a host. (Not recommended generally from the doc above but some exceptions apply I'm sure). I can test this out either way on a dev cluster on Monday if you like or please do let me know how it goes if you do it first :)
Hi
No worries I'll fire up a cluster to test.
Just tested it. You can’t set a affinity rule on a guest machine when the host (where the guest vm should run) is in maintenance. It will give an error. For the anti-affinity rules it doesnt make any sense. As anti-affinity is just that a group of guest vm's should not run on the same host.
Haha, beat me to it 
Good to know re maint mode - it does make sense of course being a ‘must’. Agree, the anti-affinity is what we use to keep app cluster members away from each other 
thank you
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