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Dynamic Resource Scheduling and SQL Server

David Klee offers some advice on Dynamic Resource Scheduling:

Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) should be enabled for all VMware host clusters, especially those who run SQL Server. It provides for resource consumption load balancing functionality into a host cluster. Consider enabling the DRS load balance based on consumed memory rather than active memory (available as of vSphere 6.7), as the active memory counter for SQL Server-based VMs is not a true representation of memory usage by the SQL Server layer.

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