# Fault - DisallowedOperationOnFailoverHost(vim.fault.DisallowedOperationOnFailoverHost)

Thrown by
  MoveInto_Task, MoveIntoFolder_Task, PowerOnVM_Task, RelocateVM_Task, RevertToCurrentSnapshot_Task
Extends
  RuntimeFault
See also
  HostSystem
Since
  vSphere API 4.0

## Fault Description

Fault thrown when an attempt is made to perform a disallowed operation on a host that has been configured as a failover host in an cluster that has High Availability enabled. See ClusterFailoverHostAdmissionControlPolicy. Examples of such operations are destroying a host, moving a host out of a cluster, or powering on a virtual machine on a specific host.

Properties

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
host | ManagedObjectReference to a HostSystem | The failover host.
hostname | xsd:string | Name of the failover host.
Properties inherited from RuntimeFault
None
Properties inherited from MethodFault
faultCause, faultMessage

Show WSDL type definition
<complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vsan="urn:vsan" name="DisallowedOperationOnFailoverHost"> <complexContent> <extension base="vsan:RuntimeFault"> <sequence> <element name="host" type="vsan:ManagedObjectReference"/> <element name="hostname" type="xsd:string"/> </sequence> </extension> </complexContent> </complexType>