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 ...
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