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

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Maintenance mode and DRS in vSphere 6.7

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

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Maintenance mode and DRS in vSphere 6.7

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- [Rick] In this video, I'll demonstrate how you can use DRS to migrate virtual machines off of ESXi hosts automatically when you need to put them in maintenance mode. And in this particular demo, I'm using the free hands-on labs that are available at hol.vmware.com. So, here we have a cluster that includes five ESXi hosts, and I'm going to click on the Configure option for this cluster, and you can see that DRS is enabled in partially automated mode. So, if I take one of the hosts in that cluster and place it into maintenance mode, the host cannot enter maintenance mode as long as there are running virtual machines on it. So here's esx-01a, and you can see that on this host, there are a couple of virtual machines that are currently running. Now, if I need to perform some sort of maintenance on this host, like for example, let's say I need to install some new physical memory in this host, the first step for me to do that is…

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