Learn how to create multiple clusters in your environment to segment your activities and configure their functionalities (DRS, HA, and EVC).
Requirements
- be an administrative contact of your Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure to receive login credentials
- a user account with access to vSphere (created in the OVHcloud Control Panel)
Instructions
Cluster creation
In the vSphere interface menu, go to the Hosts and Clusters
dashboard.
Right-click your Datacenter and select New Cluster
.
In the pop-up window, name your cluster and select the relevant options you want set.
Click OK
when done.
DRS
DRS spreads the compute load across your hosts. If you activate the option, it is set to "Fully Automated" by default.
Select your cluster. In the Configure
tab, select vSphere DRS
and click Edit
.
Three options are available to you:
- Manual Mode: DRS generates both power-on placement and migration recommendations for virtual machines. Recommendations need to be manually applied or ignored.
- Partially Automated: DRS automatically places virtual machines onto hosts at VM power-on. Migration recommendations need to be manually applied or ignored.
- Fully Automated: DRS automatically places virtual machines onto hosts at VM power-on, and virtual machines are automatically migrated from one host to another to optimize resource utilization.
Automated modes also allow to set the sensitivity of the service, from the most conservative to the most aggressive threshold.
Click OK
when done.
HA
High Availability allows for redundancy so a failing host will not impact the services running in your VMs. If you activate the option, it is set to its default settings.
To modify them, select your cluster. In the Configure
tab, select vSphere HA
and click Edit
.
The response types for the different host failures can be custom-set to your needs.
Click OK
when done.
EVC
EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) allows for migration of live VMs between hosts.
Before activating the functionality, check your hosts' summary pages to determine their types.
Select your cluster. In the Configure
tab, select VMware EVC
and click Edit
.
Enable EVC for the type of CPUs your hosts hold.
Downward compatibility is assured. To help you verify the settings are working, you will see a compatibility validation at the bottom of the window.
Click OK
when done.
Go further
For more information and tutorials, please see our other Hosted Private Cloud support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.