find slider bar setting in DRS fully automated mode on cluster

[a2alpha]

Hi,

Anyone know what the parameter is for knowing where your slider bar is for DRS Automation Level, the below returns that it is set for FullyAutomated but I would like to know what recommendations it will apply, (2, 3, 4 stars...) or just where the slider bar is.

$cluster = get-cluster Main

$cluster.DRSAutomationLevel

Thanks,

Dan

[LucD · Accepted solution]

This gives the DRS watermark rating

$clus = get-cluster <clustername> | get-view
$clus.ConfigurationEx.DrsConfig.VmotionRate

[a2alpha]

Thanks once again LucD, how would you go about setting this from powercli,

I assume its starts with set-cluster, but not really sure how to get the parameters you get from a get-cluster when its in a variable.

Thanks,

Dan

[LucD]

Although you can use the Set-Cluster cmdlet to change the DRS Automation level (with the -DrsAutomationLevel parameter) you can't change the vmmotionRate number.

For that you will have to fall back on the SDK method called ReconfigureComputeResource.

$clus = get-cluster "clus1" | get-view
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterConfigSpecEx
$spec.drsConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterDrsConfigInfo
# 1 : aggressive
# 5 : conservative
$spec.drsConfig.vmotionRate = 5

$clus.ReconfigureComputeResource($spec, $true)