DRS
When enabling datastore maintenance mode, Storage DRS will move virtual machines out of the datastore as fast as it can. The...
As mentioned in the admission control family, multiple features on multiple layers check to there is enough unused reserved memory available....
It’s funny how sometimes something, in this case a vSphere feature, becomes a “trending topic” on any given day or week....
One of most frequent questions I receive is about mixing resource pools and virtual machines at the same hierarchical level. In...
Lately I have received many questions about the interoperability between HA and affinity rules of DRS and Storage DRS. I’ve created...
There are some fundamental changes to vMotion scalability and performance in vSphere 5.0 one is the multi-nic support. One of the...
Recently I had to troubleshoot an environment which appeared to have a DRS load-balancing problem. Every time when a host was...
In part 1 of the series of post on the impact of oversized virtual machines NUMA architecture, memory overhead reservation and...
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is available for a while now, but it seems to be slowly adopted. Recently VMguru.nl featured an...
VMware vSphere 4.1 introduces a new affinity rule, called “Virtual Machines to Hosts” (VM-Host), which I described in the article “VM...
