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Mandatory Affinity rules and evacuation

I have an ESXi 5.5 host called ESXi1 in a host DRS group called "ESXi1 Host group".  No other ESXi hosts are in that group, but there are 4 other ESXi hosts in the cluster.  I have a VM called "VM1" in a Virtual machine DRS group called "VM1 virtual machine group".  No other VMs are in that DRS group.

VM1 -> "VM1 machine group"

ESXi1 -> "ESXi1 host group"

There is a mandatory DRS rule that says that VMs in "VM1 machine group" can only run on ESXi hosts in the "ESXi1 host group".  What happens when I try to put host ESXi1 into maintenance mode?  Will it be able to evacuate VM1 since there are no other hosts in the group that VM1 has to run in?

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