Align your IT infrastructure with your business goals by dynamically allocating and balancing computing resources. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) continuously monitors utilization across a resource pool and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines according to business needs.
- Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
- Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
- Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers
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Align Resources to Meet Your Business Needs
VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently aligns resources with business needs, enabling you to:
- Dynamically allocate IT resources to the highest priority applications. Create rules and policies to prioritize how resources are allocated to virtual machines.
- Give IT autonomy to business organizations. Provide dedicated IT infrastructure to business units while still achieving higher hardware utilization through resource pooling.
- Empower business units to build and manage virtual machines within their resource pool while giving central IT control over hardware resources.
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Balance Your Computing Capacity
vSphere DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure. vSphere DRS allows you to:
- Improve service levels for all applications. vSphere DRS continuously balance capacity will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in time.
- Easily deploy new capacity. vSphere DRS will seamlessly take advantage of the additional capacity of new servers added to a resource pool by redistributing virtual machines without system disruption.
- Automate planned server maintenance. vSphere DRS can automatically migrate all virtual machines off physical servers to enable scheduled server maintenance with zero downtime.
- Dramatically increase system administrator productivity. Enable system administrators to monitor and effectively manage more IT infrastructure.
Watch a technical video on VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler.
Reduce Energy Consumption in the Datacenter
vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter. When virtual machines in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers and powers off the rest to reduce power consumption. When virtual machine resource requirements increase (such as when users log into applications in the morning), DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure service levels are met.
Watch a technical video on vSphere Distributed Power Management
vSphere Distributed Power Management allows IT organizations to:
- Cut ongoing power and cooling costs by up to 20% in the datacenter during low utilization time periods.
- Automate management of energy efficiency in the datacenter.
vSphere DRS (with DPM) is included in the vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus edition. DRS and DPM leverage vSphere vMotion (live migration) will balance load and optimize power consumption with no downtime.
vCenter Server is required for the use of this feature.
