How to I disable storage DRS for a VM?

[hdinh]

I see that you can do this at the storage cluster level, Virtual machine settings and select the VM, select disabled but the VM still does a storage vMotion the next day after. We have storage DRS set up with a manual and automated schedule. The automated schedule seems to override the disabled VM setting.

[chris122686]

Hi Hdinh,

You may follow these two steps below.

A. In order to override the default DRS cluster settings for a Virtual Machine, you need to do the following.

1. Right Click on your cluster and then click on "edit settings"
2. Under DRS, click on "Virtual Machine Options"
3. Locate the particular VM and the drop down box under "Automation Level"
4. Change "Default (Fully Automated)" to "Manual"

B. You may create a group for your Virtual Machines on which host it must only run and not on the DRS Settings
  1. Create a new DRS Group for Host
  2. Create a new DRS Group for your Virtual Machines
  3. Create a new DRS Rules to match with the Host with the Virtual Machines (Must run on host in group or Must not run on host in group)

Please let me know if any of it works.

Cheers.

[hdinh]

It's set to Default (Manual) and the automated schedule seems to override and causes a storage vMotion anyway. The 2nd option is just for regular vMotion which is already disabled.