vcls on 6.5 cluster

[gjbrown]

My VC is 7.x and many of my clusters are 7.x, however I still have one cluster that I cannot upgrade past 6.5 due to hardware limitations. VC is constantly trying to deploy vCLS vms to this cluster. I do need to keep DRS enabled on this cluster, can I put the vCLS in retreat mode for this cluster but still have DRS working since it is not vCLS aware?  or is there another way to have VC stop attempting to deploy the vCLS vms?

Thanks,

GB

[a_p_]

I'm not aware of an option to have DRS working with vCenter Server 7.0 U1 or later without vCLS appliances.
See e.g. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80472

André

[mbufkin]

I'm not sure why it would be trying to deploy to 6.5. vCLS was not introduced until 7.0 Update 1.

Take a look at this: https://core.vmware.com/resource/introduction-vsphere-clustering-service-vcls