VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Enable vSphere DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling) on all clusters, using the default fully automated mode (medium)

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Enable vSphere DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling) on all clusters, using the default fully automated mode (medium)

Resolution

Design Justification: Provides the best trade-off between load balancing and unnecessary migration with vSphere vMotion.

Design Implication: If a vCenter Server outage occurs, mapping from virtual machines to ESXi hosts might be difficult to determine.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

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Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

VMware Validated Design (VVD) Bill of Materials