January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
Let's start with asking the question, if DRS is aimed at distributing resources and ensuring a balance in the cluster, why should there be a setting to increase or decrease the effectiveness of DRS?
To answer that, we should understand what potential negative influence DRS could have. To be fair, DRS means no ill intent; however, when vMotion is initiated, there is an overhead cost on two accounts:
Both these are subjective to the sensitivity of the environment; that is, in a test and development environment, wherein a cluster is fully populated with VMs, you may reap very little benefit with a very aggressive setting of DRS. This ...
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