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DRS: What's New in vSphere 7 and 8?

DRS: What's New in vSphere 7 and 8? - vSphere Tutorial

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DRS: What's New in vSphere 7 and 8?

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn about enhancements to DRS that have been made with vSphere 7. Now, prior to looking at some of these enhancements, I just want to take a moment to look back at DRS prior to vSphere 7. And prior to vSphere 7, we had this cluster-wide deviation model. So essentially what that means is it was our goal to keep the hosts in a cluster evenly utilized. So here you can see we have four hosts, and these hosts have been placed within a cluster. And again, it's the goal here to keep these hosts evenly utilized. So if there are certain virtual machines that are responsible for a higher load, we want to move those virtual machines to a different host to try to keep these hosts evenly utilized. So here you can see I've got percentages of utilization on each of these hosts, and let's add some virtual machines as well. And just kind of think of these orange VMs as the high resource utilizers. Green, they're not using quite so much, and the blue VMs are somewhere in…

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