Configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to Minimize Licensing Costs
Question
An administrator runs third-party software in a virtual machine (VM)
The third-party licensing agreement requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates.
How can the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to minimize licensing costs? (Choose the best answer.)
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A. B. C. D.D.
The correct answer to this question is option C: Create a "Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts" anti-affinity rule.
Explanation: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is a feature in VMware vSphere that automatically balances virtual machine workloads across multiple hosts in a cluster. DRS uses affinity and anti-affinity rules to determine how virtual machines should be distributed across hosts.
In this scenario, the third-party software in the virtual machine requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates. To minimize licensing costs, the administrator should configure DRS to ensure that the virtual machine does not migrate to more hosts than necessary.
Creating an anti-affinity rule ensures that the virtual machine is not placed on the same host as other specified virtual machines. In this case, the "Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts" anti-affinity rule can be used to specify that the third-party software virtual machine should not run on the same host as any other virtual machine, thereby limiting the number of hosts to which the virtual machine can migrate.
Option A, "Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines" dependency rule, is not relevant to this scenario since it does not pertain to host licensing requirements.
Option B, "Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines" affinity rule, specifies that virtual machines should be placed on the same host, which is not appropriate in this scenario since it would increase the number of hosts to which the virtual machine could migrate.
Option D, "Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts" affinity rule, is also not appropriate since it specifies that virtual machines should only run on specific hosts, which would limit the ability of DRS to balance workloads and could result in resource contention.
