Archive for the 'DRS' Category

VMware Cookbook

Here’s another new book just out about VMware VMware ESX and ESXi. According to Amazon.com, you’ll not only learn the basics — how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines — but also the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, [...]

VMotion in 3.5 DRS enabled Cluster causes Guest CPU to rise Dramatically

Ok, here is the KB article discussing the problem where the CPU usage of a virtual machine might increase significantly after VMotion migrates the virtual machine in a cluster with DRS enabled. As a result, the performance of the virtual machine might be degraded.
“Starting with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, DRS applies a [...]

How-to Keep Virtual Machines Mutually Exclusive

If you have a DRS enabled cluster in Virtual Infrastructure you might not want certain virtual machines to ever run on the same ESX host.  They might have certain disk I/O or network behaviors you want separated, or it might just be a case of uptime robustness you want like in the case of multiple [...]