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Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in vSphere 8

Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in vSphere 8

- [Rick] In this video, we'll take a look at some of the basic tasks required to configure Distributed Resource Scheduler, or DRS. And here you can see I'm in the vSphere Client, and I'm at the Hosts and Clusters view. And you can see here I've got a cluster already created. And so, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my cluster, and I'm going to click on Configure. And you can see here that vSphere DRS is currently turned off in this cluster, so that's the first thing that I want to change. So I'm going to edit this configuration, and I'm going to click this little slider to enable DRS. And you may notice that most of the options here are going to be very similar to what you've had in prior versions of vSphere. So, I can choose from different automation levels. I can either have it manual, or partially automated, or fully automated. Now if I choose fully automated, virtual machines will be automatically migrated…

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