Actually, Replicas are supported for vMotion under a specific condition. A host needs to be placed in maintenance mode which is a good step to take before removing a host from the cluster. Check that DRS is set to "Fully Automated" and the replicas will be migrated. I have done this on too many hosts to count.

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