VMware DRS Performance and Best Practices whitepaper

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Aug 8, 20081 min

Familiar with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler but want a little more help with its proper setup and configuration to get the most efficient benefit from it? 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 information around its Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) feature found within VMware Infrastructure 3.

VI3 provides a set of distributed infrastructure services that make the entire IT environment more serviceable, available and efficient. VMware’s DRS operates in VI3 and works with VMware’s management application, VirtualCenter, and VMware VMotion to help dynamically allocate resources to enforce resource management policies while balancing resource usage across ESX hosts.

This whitepaper demonstrates that value by showing various performance measurements across a number of virtualization hosts while virtual machines with varying workloads are redistributed using DRS. It will identify various scenarios in which you can benefit from DRS and it goes one step further by explaining how to configure your environment to take best advantage of DRS. If you are already familiar with the DRS technology, this whitepaper will help you get a better understanding on how to maximize performance efficiency and is highly recommended.

Download the DRS performance and best practice whitepaper.