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SET DRS to Auto Or Manual

HI All,

Currently i got 2 ESX host and set to manual DRS and HA enable (Host failure the cluster tolerance=1) ).  Any recommendation for setting up with Auto DRS?

As

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zaco
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Have a look at those (1st link has a section for DRS). For DRS if you have it set to manual, you'll have to pay attention to the recommendations.  In my environment, for most of my clusters, DRS is set to auto with the default migration threshold. 

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.1.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmw-vsphere-high-availability.pdf

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akkayyakapisett
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I would recommend you to go with full automation and set the options Migration threshold to 3 ( Not agressive)

It will load balance and improve performance of VM's

Venkat

http://www.peeradmin.com

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