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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684026

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

4. ESXi Image Builder

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Index

Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM)

A DRS cluster can be configured to change the power state of the selected hosts, in order to reduce the power consumption by the cluster. This feature is called the vSphere Distributed Power Management and is configurable only if the cluster is DRS-enabled.

Note

DPM is disabled by default. You will need to edit the DRS cluster settings to enable DPM.

How to do it…

The following procedure will help you enable and configure DPM on a DRS enabled cluster:

From the vCenter's inventory home, navigate to the Hosts and Clusters view.
Select the cluster and navigate to Manage | Settings | vSphere DRS and click on Edit.
On the Edit Cluster Settings page, click on Power Management to expand it and view the sub-settings. Note that the default setting is Off. Select either Manual or Automatic automation level.
Modify the DPM threshold if necessary and click on OK.
Click on OK to acknowledge the warning and enable power management.