Disabling DRS on a vCloud Managed ESXi Cluster

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

When user disables DRS on a vCloud Managed ESXi Cluster, vCloud cannot provision as the Resource Pools are no longer exist in vCenter Server.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director for Service Provider 8.20.x
VMware Cloud Director 5.1.x
VMware Cloud Director 1.0.x
VMware Cloud Director 5.5.x
VMware Cloud Director for Service Provider 5.6.x
VMware Cloud Director 1.5.x
VMware Cloud Director for Service Provider 8.10.x
VMware Cloud Director for Service Provider 8.0.x

Cause

• Prior to vCloud Director 8.20, there were no features in vCenter that could stop a vCenter Server Administrator from disabling DRS.
• Once DRS is disabled, all of the Resource Pools get deleted.
• vCloud uses Resource Pools for its Provider, Organization and System resource.

Resolution

If DRS is disabled in vCenter Server on a vCloud Managed ESXi Cluster, you need to roll back your vCenter Server and vCloud Ddtabases to the same point in time before DRS was disabled.

Note: It is a part of the VMware Support Terms and Conditions that the customer has relevant backups in place. For more information, see Customer Responsibilities section in VMware, Inc. Support and Subscription Services "SnS" Terms and Conditions.

If a Database backup is not present, the vCloud Director environment would need to be rebuilt.