: If the witness goes down in a 2-node cluster, the cluster cannot survive a subsequent node failure.
The Witness Appliance must not reside on the vSAN cluster it is protecting. It should live on a separate standalone host or a different vSphere cluster.
: Because it doesn't run actual workloads (VMs), it has very low CPU and memory requirements.
: If the witness goes down in a 2-node cluster, the cluster cannot survive a subsequent node failure.
The Witness Appliance must not reside on the vSAN cluster it is protecting. It should live on a separate standalone host or a different vSphere cluster.
: Because it doesn't run actual workloads (VMs), it has very low CPU and memory requirements.