vSphere5.0 practical tips -DPM Scheduled Tasks
After the DPM (Distributed Power Management) function is turned on, the DPM cluster resources according to the needs, on or standby ESXi host.
When the rapid increase in cluster resource requirements, DPM must open additional ESXi host to increased demand, during this time, the environment may experience delays or performance tuning, 7:30 am to 10:00 is considered the biggest day one obstacle (peak load), at this time, IT departments want their virtual infrastructure design services readily available resources.
Then, through a DPM 6:30 every morning to disable the scheduled tasks, management ensures that all ESXi hosts during the morning peak load is on, so to wait than DPM workload increases and then make a lot of good response. When after the peak load, which is a 11:00 run DPM cancel the scheduled task is disabled, so that to achieve cost-saving effect, maximize the role of DPM, let's configure a scheduled task DPM
1. Go to the list of scheduled tasks vCenter.
2. Turn off power management
3. Set the start time and the frequency and time interval selected here in the morning before the 6:00 start of the peak load.
4. choose to receive e-mail address of the administrator, of course, provided that you configure the SMTP function.
5. Close view DPM configuration information.
6. Turn on DPM functionality
7. Set the start time and the frequency and time interval selected here at 11:00 am after the peak load.
8. Select Administrator receives e-mail address
9. Check the configuration of
10. In this way, DPM Task Scheduler to configure complete, you can adjust the time interval based on the actual situation of the company.
