January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
A DRS cluster can be configured to change the power state of the selected hosts in order to reduce the power consumption by the cluster. It does this by evaluating overall resource requirements and available resources. If the cluster can sustain without the contributions of one or more hosts, it would move the host(s) to a standby state. It's also capable of performing vice-versa; that is, DPM would also restore hosts from a standby state to a powered-on state if the cluster resource demand increases. In the following recipe, we will go over the prerequisites and the procedure to enable the feature.
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