Introduction to VMware vSAN : Introduction to vSAN : 4.2 vSAN Availability
   
4.2 vSAN Availability
4.2.1 Fault Domains
The previous example demonstrates the vSAN concept known as a fault domain. This feature allows providers to group multiple hosts into failure zones across multiple server racks so that replicas of virtual machine objects are not provisioned onto the same logical failure zones or server racks.