Rebalancing workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS

The Datacenter Workload Status may show the Rebalance and Schedule buttons as grayed out if you are not meeting all the requirements for Intelligent Workload Placement, which will not allow you to rebalance workload distribution in your data center or CDC.

Creating a custom data center

As we already mentioned in this book, a Custom Data Center (CDC) can be used to perform capacity management and planning across disparate groupings of capacity providers.

Let's take a look at all the workloads in our datacenter:

In this example, as we mentioned already, we can have the following clusters:

• CLU-COMP-A-01: A compute cluster, which is powered off and in this lab used as a cold standby
• CLU-COMP-A-02: A compute cluster being utilized
• CLU-COMP-A-03: A compute cluster being utilized
• CLU-MGMT-A-02: A management cluster being utilized

Again, for the purpose of this example, let’s say I do not want to use Intelligent Workload Placement and balance between...