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AlexBakman
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What % of companies use clusters? How about Resource Pools?

Hi Everybody

I am trying to figure out how popular is the use of Clusters and Resouce Pools out there? Is is 20%, 50% 80%? Even if yuu have a rough idea, please let me know.

Thanks

Alex

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BINC-HCN
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Since clusters are needed for DRS and HA, I have yet to do any installation that does not utilize a VirtualCenter cluster. Resource Pools are based on what the client desires. I usually set up three generic Resource Pools High, Normal, and Low for virtual machines as a starting point for clients. I have not had environments large enough yet that required nesting Resource Pools.

Borat_Sagdiev
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Alex,

I've seen a lot of shops and surprisingly only 50% have actually used HA clusters. I always see vmotion in use, but not HA clusters. Only the advanced shops I've worked with use resource pools, often for their developers. In most cases the shops that were not using all the features were not doing so because of:

a. Lack of matching equipment

b. Lack of Vmware knowledge

Hope this helps.

AlexBakman
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Borat Smiley Happy

How about % of DRS enabled clusters out there?

What would you guess?

Alex

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