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Predictive DRS with vRealize Operations

What about preventing contention in the first place?

With vSphere Predictive DRS (pDRS), this is not an issue.

Predictive DRS is a new feature in vSphere 6.5 that leverages the predictive analytics of vRealize Operations with the powerful resource scheduler algorithm of vSphere DRS. It identifies workload patterns of the virtual machines in order to predict future resource needs. If a host doesn't have enough resources to keep up with future demands, predictive DRS will move workloads to other hosts in the cluster before contention can even occur.

Enabling pDRS is easy. Perform the following steps to enable pDRS:

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