On Reddit, someone asked what DRS advanced setting IsClusterManaged does and if it is even legit. I can confirm it is legit, it is a setting which was introduced to prevent customers from disabling DRS while the cluster is managed by vCloud Director for instance. As disabling DRS would lead to deleting resource pools, which would be a very bad situation to find yourself in when you run vCloud Director as it leans on DRS Resource Pools heavily. So if you see the advanced setting IsClusterManaged in your environment for DRS, just leave it alone, it is there for a reason. (Most likely because you are using something like vCloud Director…)
Michael Schroeder says
7 May, 2019 at 18:55Thanks Duncan.
Is it possible to SET the value IsClusterManaged? Even without vCloudDirector?
That would be a nice “do not touch” switch. 😉
Recently a customer disabled DRS instead of setting it to manual. Caused quite some trouble, because MO Ref IDs change when you restore pools from backup.
TIA
Michael
Duncan Epping says
8 May, 2019 at 08:28Yes you could do this Michael.