About Maintenance Hosts

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You can designate a virtual machine host as a maintenance host. A maintenance host is a host that you can dedicate for patching stored resources and for staging virtual machines before you move them into your production environment.

This designation is for reference only; however, by designating and using a dedicated host to perform maintenance tasks, you can avoid affecting the performance and the host rating of a production host while performing such tasks.

See Also

Concepts

About Virtual Machine Placement
How to Modify the Properties of a Host Group
How to Set Placement Options for a Host