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L. PatrãoVMware vSphere Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0208-9_18

18. vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS)

Luciano Patrão1  
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Selfkant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
 

vSphere vCLS was briefly covered in Chapter 10. This chapter provides additional information about this vSphere feature, including how to move vCLS VMs to a different datastore and how to create an Anti-Affinity rule for vCLS VMs.

18.1 What Is vCLS?

vSphere vCLS is a set of services that run on vSphere clusters to provide cluster-level functionality even when the vCenter is unavailable. vCLS services include the following (both of which are discussed in Chapter 17):

  • vSphere Distributed Resource ...

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