VMware vSphere provides IT administrators with several tools to prevent host failure, such as High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler. Both of these tools can help mitigate failures and ...

VMware has released a new Fling call DRS Doctor that's a command-line tool intended to give the user insight into the actions of the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). DRS has always been extremely ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...

Read this whitepaper from VMware if you use DRS in your virtual infrastructure environment. In this 19-page whitepaper titled DRS Performance and Best Practices, VMware is able to compact a wealth of ...

For those of you who still haven't gone down the path of evaluating or purchasing VMware's VI3 High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) or even if you haven't driven past someone ...

Virtualization lets companies more efficiently use their data center hardware. But just as important is better utilization of the human resources that manage those data centers. To lighten the load, ...

VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) is a utility that balances computing workloads with available resources in a virtualized environment. The utility is part of a virtualization suite called ...

So, vSphere Storage DRS is suppose to require Enterprise Plus licenses, but we only have Enterprise and have no problems creating datastore clusters and enabling Storage DRS on them. I am beginning to ...