Applying recommendations for partially automated DRS clusters
PowerCLI offers you the ability to set a cluster into autopilot, but that is not a requirement to receive the benefits for DRS. DRS clusters can also be set into a partially automated mode that lets DRS make recommendations and allows the administrator to apply those recommendations. PowerCLI offers native cmdlets to retrieve a list of recommendations and allows them to be applied.
Get-DRSRecommendations and Apply-DRSRecommendation allow you to retrieve the current recommendations and then apply them. In vSphere 6, the Apply-DRSRecommendation cmdlet changes to Invoke-DRSRecommendation. The functionality is the same, but the verb changes. Like any other native cmdlet, you can take the results and scope the list of recommendations to apply. One important thing to note here is that the Get-DRSRecommendation and the Apply-DRSRecommendation cmdlets only apply to compute clusters and not to storage clusters.
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