VMware has released a new Fling call DRS Doctor that's a command-line tool intended to give the user insight into the actions of the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). DRS has always been extremely ...

In this 19-page whitepaper titled DRS Performance and Best Practices, VMware is able to compact a wealth of information around its Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) feature found within VMware ...

Virtualization lets companies more efficiently use their data center hardware. But just as important is better utilization of the human resources that manage those data centers. To lighten the load, ...

Flings are, at least according to official VMware policy, experimental programs. They are unsupported tools typically meant to make a virtualization admin's life easier. Although recognized by VMware, ...

For those of you who still haven't gone down the path of evaluating or purchasing VMware's VI3 High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) or even if you haven't driven past someone ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...

The VMotion debate continues: If you're not using enhancement tools such as VMware's vMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS, you're increasing your costs and level of risk. Judging by blogs and associated ...

So, vSphere Storage DRS is suppose to require Enterprise Plus licenses, but we only have Enterprise and have no problems creating datastore clusters and enabling Storage DRS on them. I am beginning to ...

One of the Windows techs came to me today asking if we could set up an affinity rule in VMware to limit all our assorted Windows Server VMs to three hosts in the farm, some licensing thing, I dunno.