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Align your IT infrastructure with your business goals by dynamically
allocating and balancing computing resources with VMware Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS). VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization
across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources
among the virtual machines based on pre-defined rules that reflect
business needs and changing priorities. When virtual machine resources
are constrained, additional capacity is made available by migrating
live virtual machines to a different physical server using
VMware VMotion.
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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Your Computing Capacity:
VMware DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource
pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not
possible with physical infrastructure. VMware DRS allows you to:
- Improve service levels for all applications. VMware
DRS continuously balance capacity will ensure that each virtual
machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in
time.
- Easily deploy new capacity. VMware 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. VMware 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.
Reduce Energy Consumption in the Datacenter:
VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) (this functionality
is supported experimentally) continuously monitors resource requirements
and power consumption across a DRS cluster. When the cluster needs
fewer resources, it consolidates workloads and puts hosts in standby
mode to reduce power consumption. When resource requirements of
workloads increase, DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to
ensure service levels are met.
Distributed Power Management allows IT organizations to:
- Cut power and cooling costs in the datacenter during low
utilization time periods.
- Automate management of energy efficiency in the datacenter.
VMware DRS and DPM is included in VMware Infrastructure Enterprise
Edition and can be purchased as an add-on product to the Standard
and Starter editions. Find out more about the
VMware Infrastructure editions.
VMware DRS Feature:
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Performance and Scalability:
- Large-scale management. Manage hundreds of servers
and thousands of virtual machines. VirtualCenter 2 starts up
faster, is more responsive and is designed from the ground up
to handle the largest IT environments.
Management:
- Management of sets of virtual machines running a distributed
application. Optimize the service level of distributed applications
by controlling the aggregate allocation of resources for the
entire set of virtual machines running the distributed application.
Distributed Resource Optimization:
- Abstraction of resources from hardware virtual machines.
Manage resources independently of the physical servers that
contribute the resources.
- Flexible hierarchical organization. Organize resource
pools hierarchically to match available IT resources to the
business organization. VMware DRS ensures that resource utilization
is maximized while business units retain control and autonomy
of their infrastructure. Resource pools can be flexibly added,
removed, or reorganized as business needs or organization change.
- Isolation between resource pools. Make allocation
changes within a resource pool without impacting other unrelated
resource pools. For example, any allocation changes in the resource
pool dedicated to a given business unit do not impact other
resource pools.
- Affinity Rules. Create rules that govern the allocation
of virtual machines to physical servers. For example, certain
virtual machines can always run on the same server for performance
reasons. Alternatively, specified virtual machines can always
run on different servers for increased availability.
 Power Management. Reduce energy consumption in the
datacenter by using Distributed Power Management (experimental)
to consolidate workloads and power off power consuming servers
when they are not needed by virtual machines in the cluster.
When resource requirements of virtual machines increase, Distributed
Power Management brings hosts back online so service levels
can be met.
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High Availability:
- Manual and Automatic Mode. VMware DRS collects resource
usage information from servers and virtual machines, and then
generates recommendations to optimize virtual machine allocation.
These recommendations can be executed automatically or manually.
- Initial placement. When a virtual machine is
first powered on, VMware DRS either automatically places
the virtual machine on the most appropriate physical server
or makes a recommendation.
- Continuous optimization. VMware DRS continuously
optimizes resource allocations based on defined resource
allocation rules and resource utilization. The resource
allocation changes can be automatically executed by performing
live migration of virtual machines through VMotion. Alternatively,
in manual mode, VMware DRS provides execution recommendations
for system administrators.
- Maintenance mode for servers. Perform maintenance
on physical servers without disruption to virtual machines and
end users. When a physical server is placed in maintenance mode,
VMware DRS identifies alternative servers where the virtual
machines can run. Based on automation mode settings, the virtual
machines are either automatically moved to use the alternative
servers, or the system administrator performs the move manually
using the VMware DRS recommendations as a guideline.
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Pricing Notes:
- Support and Subscription is mandatory for all VMware
products except VMware Workstation, VirtualCenter for VMware
Server, and VMware Server.
- SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) is priced at 16% and
20% of list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively.
Under SLS, customers get full technical support, new minor product
releases and bug fixes on the major product release train at
the time of purchase. Major upgrades are not included under
SLS. (example VI3 to VI4)
- SnS (Support & Subscription) is priced at 21% and 25% of
list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively (Pricing
varies for Starter Edition)
- All upgrade SKUs must be purchased with a standard gold
or platinum SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) or SnS (Support
and Subscription) based on the list price of the upgraded product
- for pricing and more details on this required purchase,
please contact us..
- Support times shown are for North & South American customers
only - Gold Support response time is 4 hours for Severity One
incidents, but resolution time could vary.
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VMware DRS 2 |
VMware DRS 2 for 2
processors
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#VI-DRS-C
List Price:
$1,995.00
Our Price: $1,790.00 |
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VMware DRS 2 Support/Subscriptions |
VMware DRS 2 Gold Support,
Subscription, 1 Year
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday |
#VI-DRS-G-SSS-C
Our Price: $419.00 |
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VMware DRS 2 Gold Support,
Subscription, 2 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday |
#VI-DRS-G-SSS-2YR-C
Our Price: $779.34 |
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VMware DRS 2 Gold Support,
Subscription, 3 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday |
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Our Price: $1,068.45 |
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VMware DRS 2 Platinum
Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week |
#VI-DRS-P-SSS-C
Our Price: $499.00 |
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VMware DRS 2 Platinum
Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week |
#VI-DRS-P-SSS-2YR-C
Our Price: $928.14 |
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VMware DRS 2 Platinum
Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week |
#VI-DRS-P-SSS-3YR-C
Our Price: $1,272.45 |
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