DRS Woes? The doctor is in!
I’ve recently been troubleshooting DRS behavior for some of my specific VMware clusters and came across this little nugget:
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/drsdoctor
From 10,000 ft. it looks like the utility runs in an active monitoring state. It first sets the DRS automation level to “Partially Automated”, then monitors DRS recommendations as they filter in. From here it can grab data about the reason a particular action is being recommended, along with performance stats of the guest and host at the time of the recommendation. Hats off to the team that created this handy troubleshooting utility!
Stay tuned as I have some more fancy DRS troubleshooting tools and tips coming soon…