December 2017
Beginner
598 pages
14h 7m
English
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) was introduced in vSphere 5.0 to efficiently manage a pool of datastores as a single logical datastore (a datastore cluster). VM optimization and distribution was based on two metrics—space and I/O.
SDRS fully supports VMFS and NFS datastore. However, it does not allow adding NFS datastores and VMFS datastores into the same datastore cluster. Starting with vSphere 6.0, SDRS is now aware of the storage capabilities available through VASA 2.0 and can use storage policies (see later in this chapter). It will only move or place VMs on a datastore within the datastore cluster that can satisfy specific VM's storage policies, based on several features, including the ...
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