vCloud director SDRS
vCloud director SDRS Another feature which was introduced in vSphere 5.1 & vCloud Director 5.1 was the interoperability between vCloud Director & Storage DRS. Now vCloud Director can use datastore clusters for the placements of vCloud vApps, and allow Storage DRS do what it does best � choose the best datastore in the datastore cluster for the initial placement of the vApp, and then load balance the capacity and performance of the datastores through the use of Storage vMotion. However, what about Fast Provisioned vCloud vApps which are based on link clones? Well yes, this is also supported. Storage DRS now understands how to handle linked clones objects which it didn�t do previously. Shadow VMs To begin with, let�s talk a little about Fast Provisioned vCloud vApps and shadow VMs . If a fast provisioned vCloud vApp is deployed from the catalog to a different datastore, a shadow VM of the vApp is instantiated from the catalog on the datastore. A shadow VM is an exact copy of the ...