vSphere 6.5 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description
VMware vSphere 6.5 provides dynamic load balancing using DRS clusters. However, there are many ways to control DRS behavior. This course covers how to deploy a DRS cluster.

Target Audience
IT professionals or managers using or considering the use of VMware vSphere products such as vCenter and ESXi to provide virtualization in their datacenter

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.2

Lesson Objectives

vSphere 6.5 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  • start the course
  • recognize uses of Distributed Resource Scheduler in a VMware virtualized environment
  • describe methods of enabling Distributed Resource Scheduler in a VMware virtualized environment
  • compare the three levels of automation within Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • select an appropriate automation migration threshold within Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • create Distributed Resource Scheduler groups and apply rules
  • identify the components of HA Orchestrated Restart in vCenter 6.5
  • describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) overrides function
  • use Schedule DRS to automatically manage resources in a VMware virtualized environment
  • use Distributed Resource Scheduler to monitor events, performance, and resource utilization
  • describe the benefits of Distributed Power Management in DRS
  • recognize how storage DRS assists with datastore management
  • describe various advanced Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) options
  • configure DRS cluster settings according to business needs using the vSphere Web Client

    • Course Number:
    vi_vicm_a08_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Expert