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  • 1.  How to enable Storage DRS for a VM?

    Posted Nov 05, 2013 09:17 AM

    When you do a storage migration of a VM into a Storage DRS cluster there's a tick box that says "Disable Storage DRS for the virtual machine". If this box is ticked, you can pick the datastore to put the VM on, but I believe it also permanently disables storage DRS for the VM, meaning it will sit on that datastore forever?

    In the event that the above is true, how would I go about re-enabling storage DRS for the virtual machine? Migrating it out of the cluster and back in again will presumably do it, but this seems like a rather cumbersome way of (I assume) setting a flag in the VM/SDRS configuration.

    So is there a faster way? (or one that doesn't involve me having to shift large amounts of data around?)

    Thanks.



  • 2.  RE: How to enable Storage DRS for a VM?

    Posted Nov 14, 2013 04:31 PM

    It is not disabled.   This only disables it for initial placement the only stuff that can cause storage drs on a virtual machine file is VMware vSphere 5.1 here

    Thanks



  • 3.  RE: How to enable Storage DRS for a VM?

    Posted Jul 26, 2018 04:12 AM

    If you tick that box, it actually does add it to the VM Overrides on the Storage DRS cluster. I just did it to confirm.



  • 4.  RE: How to enable Storage DRS for a VM?

    Posted Nov 15, 2013 01:39 PM

    You can right-click the Storage DRS Cluster and choose Edit Settings, click Virtual Machine Settings.

    In the Automation Level column you can see the current Storage DRS settings on a per VM level and change the settings if you want to.