Creating and managing datastore clusters
vSphere 5 introduced the new concept of a datastore cluster, which is a storage pool of VMFS datastores clustered in a similar way to how vSphere clusters hosts to share compute. Datastore clusters use Storage DRS to manage the pool of storage.
Storage DRS, as it is known, makes recommendations to balance utilization and workload across datastores in the cluster. Using Storage vMotion, a datastore cluster can balance the utilization of datastores so that the virtual machines are less likely to run out of disk space on their VMFS datastores or experience performance issues due to latency. Storage DRS can either make recommendations or can automatically apply recommendations to move a VM from one datastore ...
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