From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

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DRS affinity rules, groups, and overrides in vSphere 6.7

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From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

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DRS affinity rules, groups, and overrides in vSphere 6.7

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- [Rick] In this video I'll show you how to configure affinity rules, DRS groups and VM overrides on a DRS cluster. So, here you can see I'm in my vSphere client and I have a DRS cluster here and on the DRS cluster I'm going to click on configure. And so the first thing I want to show you is VM overrides. So, for VM overides I can click Add here and I can say, okay maybe for this app server, I want to create an override. So, I'll choose that virtual machine and now I'll say this virtual machine, I want to change the DRS automation level, all right. My cluster is set to manual but maybe I want to change the automation level on this particular VM to fully automated so that it can be migrated around my cluster without any intervention from me. Or maybe my cluster is automated and I want to change certain VMs to manual. This is a more likely use case. So, I always think about vCenter. Think about your vCenter server for a…

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