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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789801514
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright Hersey Cartwright
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center 2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources

The vSphere DRS determines the initial placement of virtual machines and balances resources across available host resources in a vSphere cluster. Virtual machine resources can be guaranteed or limited. Rules can be applied to keep virtual machines together on the same host, or to ensure that virtual machines run on separate hosts.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to implement and configure DRS:

  1. Edit the settings of the vSphere cluster to enable vSphere DRS
  2. Select a value for the DRS Automation Level that should be applied to the DRS-enabled cluster
  3. Select a value for the Migration Threshold that should be applied to the DRS-enabled cluster
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