6.5.1

Use MSCS in an vSphere HA and
vSphere DRS Environment 5
When you use MSCS in a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) or vSphere Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS) environment, you must congure your hosts and virtual machines to use certain seings.
All hosts that run MSCS virtual machines must be managed by a vCenter Server system.
vSphere includes vMotion support for MSCS cluster virtual machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Enable vSphere HA and vSphere DRS in a Cluster (MSCS),” on page 29
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“Create VM-VM Anity Rules for MSCS Virtual Machines,” on page 30
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“Enable Strict Enforcement of Anity Rules (MSCS),” on page 30
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“Set DRS Automation Level for MSCS Virtual Machines,” on page 31
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“Using vSphere DRS Groups and VM-Host Anity Rules with MSCS Virtual Machines,” on page 31
Enable vSphere HA and vSphere DRS in a Cluster (MSCS)
All hosts that are running MSCS virtual machines can be part of a vCenter Server cluster with both vSphere
HA and vSphere DRS enabled. You can enable vSphere HA and vSphere DRS in the Cluster Seings dialog
box.
Procedure
1 Browse to the cluster in the vSphere Web Client object navigator.
2 Click .
3 Under Services, select vSphere DRS and click Edit.
4 Select the Turn ON vSphere DRS and Turn on vSphere HA check boxes.
5 Click OK.
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