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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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The first step to unleash the plethora of DRS features is to enable it at the cluster level. In this recipe, we shall walk through the necessary steps.

Getting ready

vSphere DRS is a licensed feature, hence ensure that sufficient licenses are available. vSphere DRS is directly dependent on VMotion feature to balance VMs across hosts, hence the prerequisites of VMotion are applicable and need to be satisfied for DRS to function.

How to do it...

Log in to vCenter and navigate to the desired cluster, Configure | vSphere DRS, then click on Edit.
Click on the checkbox Turn ON vSphere DRS, as depicted in the following screenshot:

Choose the DRS Automation level; leave it at default values.

How it works

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