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Mike Brown
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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright
Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources

The vSphere DRS determines the initial placement of virtual machines and balances resources across available host resources in a vSphere cluster. Virtual machine resources can be guaranteed or limited. Rules can be applied to keep virtual machines together on the same host, or to ensure that virtual machines run on separate hosts.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to implement and configure DRS:

  1. Edit the settings of the vSphere cluster to enable vSphere DRS
  2. Select a value for the DRS Automation Level that should be applied to the DRS-enabled cluster
  3. Select a value for the Migration Threshold that should be applied to the DRS-enabled cluster
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition
Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789801514

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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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