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Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS cluster

Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS cluster

- [Instructor] In this video, I'll demonstrate how to add hosts to a DRS cluster. And so here under Host and Clusters, you can see in the last few videos, I've gone through the process of building this DRS cluster, and then I've got a couple of standalone ESXI hosts here. So let's focus on this first ESXI host for a moment. You can see that this ESXI host has one virtual machine called Database, and it's got another virtual machine called App Server. And that App Server virtual machine is running inside of a resource pool called High. And so this resource pool called High, is utilizing the resources of its parent object, which in this case is this ESXI host. So I have high CPU and memory shares configured for this resource pool. Those shares are only relevant on this ESXI host. So just bear that in mind. Then I've got another ESXI host here with another virtual machine on it as well. And at the moment, all these virtual…

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