Storage DRS
VM DRS balances VMs on ESXi hosts and gives the VMs the best possible startup point. Storage DRS is a similar technology that balances the vmdks over data stores. It is a technology that simplifies the datastore management. How to…
Category vSphere
VMware Performance – CPU READY
A deep dive into CPU Ready time and the effects of it on VM running on VMware vSphere. The article explains the symptoms, what CPU ready is and what it is not and how to resolve it.
Distributed Resource Scheduler
DRS addresses where it is optimal for a VM to run. This is done to place the VM on the best ESXi host when the VM starts up based upon resources availability. The load balancing between Cluster nodes (ESXi hosts) is also based on moving VMs to another host that has less resource constraints.
vSphere FT
VMware HA and FT are often misunderstood. Here I will take a deep dive look at what FT provides, read this article for HA deep dive. What is vSphere FT vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) is for most mission critical virtual…
Defining VM start order in case of VMware vSphere HA Event
Within vSphere 6.7 and later we can define the start order of VMs in a vSphere cluster in case of an HA event. This can be very useful for certain applications, like if the database server needs to be up…