frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Machine Learning Chief Technologist at VMware. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

Storage DRS enables SIOC on datastores only if I/O load balancing is enabled

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Lately, I’ve received some comments why I don’t include SIOC in my articles when talking about space load balancing. Well, Storage DRS only enables SIOC on each datastore inside the datastore cluster if I/O load balancing is enabled. When you don’t enable I/O load balancing during the initial setup of the datastore cluster, SIOC is left disabled.
Keep in mind when I/O load balancing is enabled on the datastore cluster and you disable the I/O load balancing feature, SIOC remains enabled on all datastores within the cluster.

frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Machine Learning Chief Technologist at VMware. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

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