Using The Drs Tab - VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0 Management Manual

Using the DRS Tab

The DRS tab is available when you select a DRS cluster object from the inventory panel in the vSphere Client.
This tab displays information about the DRS recommendations made for the cluster, faults that have occurred
in applying such recommendations, and the history of DRS actions. You can access three pages from this tab.
These pages are named Recommendations, Faults, and History.
DRS Recommendations Page
You can reach this page by clicking the Recommendations button on the DRS tab.
The Recommendations page of the DRS tab displays the following cluster properties.
Table 7-3. DRS Recommendations Page
Field
Migration Automation Level
Power Management Automation
Level
Migration Threshold
Power Management Threshold
Additionally, the DRS Recommendations section on this page displays the current set of recommendations
generated for optimizing resource utilization in the cluster through either migrations or power management.
Only manual recommendations awaiting user confirmation appear on this list.
Actions that you can take from this page:
To refresh the recommendations, click Run DRS and the recommendations update. This command
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appears on all three DRS pages.
To apply all recommendations, click Apply Recommendations.
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To apply a subset of the recommendations, select the Override DRS recommendations check box. This
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activates the Apply check boxes next to each recommendation. Select the check box next to each desired
recommendation and click Apply Recommendations.
Table 7-4 shows the information that DRS provides for each recommendation.
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Description
Automation level for DRS virtual machine migration recommendations. Fully
Automated, Partially Automated, or Manual.
Automation level for VMware DPM recommendations. Off, Manual, or Automatic.
Priority level (or higher) of DRS recommendations to apply.
Priority level (or higher) of VMware DPM recommendations to apply.
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