PowerCLI Cookbook

Chapter 9. Managing DRS and Affinity Groups using PowerCLI

In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

• Applying recommendations for partially automated DRS clusters
• Setting a cluster into maintenance mode with PowerCLI
• Using native DRS rule cmdlets to manage KeepTogether and Separate rules
• Learning the MoRef way of identifying objects
• Creating a DRS group for virtual machines
• Listing the members of a DRS group
• Updating the members of a VM DRS group
• Creating a custom function to update members of a DRS group
• Creating rules to maintain memberships of DRS groups using a custom function
• Using Compare-Object to audit group memberships for differences

Introduction

The Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) feature of vSphere offers administrators a hands-off ...