Session INF8959 300,000 vCenter deployments, 94% with DRS enabled Quick Facts Faster power on for large clusters: 6.5 is 3x faster than 5.5 and 6.0. 5x lower CPU utilization in 6.5 than previous versions 6.5 has better VM placements DRS ensures resource availability - DRS does this in two ways...
Session INF5306 DRS is the #1 scheduler in the datacenter today 92% of clusters have DRS enabled. 79% are in fully automated mode. 87% have affinity and anti-affinity rules. 43% of clusters have resource pools enabled and use them 99.8% of cluster use maintenance mode Bottom line: DRS is popular...
Session: INF4535 Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman Introduction to SDA (Software defined availability): VM, server, storage, data center, networking, management. Business only cares about the application, not the underlying infrastructure. vSphere HA Configured through vCenter but not dependent on it Each host has an agent (FDM) will be installed for monitoring...
Session BCO2701. This was very fast paced, and I missed jotting down a lot of the slide content. If you attended VMworld then I recommend you listen to the recording to get all of the good bits of information. vSphere HA - what's new in 5.5 VSAN Support AppHA integration...
This is my first technical session of VMworld 2013, VSVC5280. It covered new vSphere 5.5 DRS features, explained why DRS may not always "perfectly" balance your cluster. vSphere 5.5 has a lot of new storage features, and DRS has been enhanced to be aware of VSAN and vFlash technologies. As...