Now that you have a good understanding of how vRealize Operations Intelligent Workload Placement, vSphere DRS, and vSphere Storage DRS work together, let's see how we can leverage this in vRealize Automation.
Beginning with vRealize Automation 7.3 and vRealize Operations 6.6, you can leverage the capabilities of both products to optimize your workload placement.
vRealize Automation is playing the role of a governance engine. When a blueprint request for a new virtual machine comes to vRealize Automation, it determines which business group the requestor is a member of and the eligible reservations the business group has access to. A reservation policy is configured with a vSphere cluster and one or more Datastores or datastore clusters. A business group may be assigned multiple reservations, some or all of which...
