VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

vSphere DRS feature details

vSphere DRS provides load balancing of the cluster by using vSphere vMotion to migrate workloads from heavily-loaded hosts to less-utilized hosts in the cluster. It can be set up to operate in the following modes:

• Manual: Recommendations are made but not acted upon unless an administrator initiates the migration.
• Partially automated: Recommendations are made but not acted upon unless an administrator initiates the migration, but initial power-on placements are made automatically.
• Fully automated: Initial power-on placement is automatic and all recommendations are acted upon automatically by the system.

How aggressively vSphere DRS operates depends on the migration threshold value that is set. The threshold value ...