SUMMARY

As you can see, deploying a DRS cluster can involve a lot of planning. However, the capability to perform automatic load balancing of the cluster can provide a more efficient environment for your virtual machines. Maintenance Mode provides the option to perform maintenance tasks during production hours without impacting client access. In the physical world, these same maintenance tasks, such as adding PCI adapters or adding DIMM modules or CPU modules, would have required an outage to accomplish.

We must also consider the option to power down physical servers when the resources are not required. Distributed Power Management can save money, power, and physical resources.