DRS - Distributed Resources Service
1. No Reboot is required.
2. This process will recommend moving a VM for performance reasons. This can be set to automatically move the VM.
HA - High Availability
1. Reboot is required
2. If a host crashes, this service will start the VM's that were on it, to another host automatically. The VM's will have powered down unexpectedly though.
FT - Fault Tolerance
This feature is introduced in ESX4 and keeps a running copy on another host. If the primary host fails, the other takes over with no down time. This is currently limited to VM's with one vCPU though.
1. No Reboot is required.
2. This process will recommend moving a VM for performance reasons. This can be set to automatically move the VM.
HA - High Availability
1. Reboot is required
2. If a host crashes, this service will start the VM's that were on it, to another host automatically. The VM's will have powered down unexpectedly though.
FT - Fault Tolerance
This feature is introduced in ESX4 and keeps a running copy on another host. If the primary host fails, the other takes over with no down time. This is currently limited to VM's with one vCPU though.
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