Chapter 12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
- Configuring VMware EVC
- Choosing a DRS automation level
- Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM
- Setting a migration threshold
- Creating DRS host groups
- Creating DRS VM groups
- Creating VMs to host affinity rules
- Creating VM affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management
- Enabling power management on a per-host level
Introduction
VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is a series of algorithms devised to manage an aggregated pool of computing resources and distribute virtual machines among the ESXi hosts in a cluster in an effort to reduce any resource imbalance in the ...
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