IT Infrastructure Manager

Rhon Parris

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Thanks Andrew, but if I shut down the vm's &nbsp;and one of the vm's is the vCenter and can't manipulate the hosts into the cluster.
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Thanks Andrew, but if I shut down the vm's  and one of the vm's is the vCenter and can't manipulate the hosts into the cluster.

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Can you not use Move Hosts into Cluster ?<br />
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because initially DRS and HA are disabled. (default)
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Can you not use Move Hosts into Cluster ?

because initially DRS and HA are disabled. (default)

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My Vcenter is a Virtual machine on one of the too candidate hosts. &nbsp;If I shut down the VM's &nbsp;to join cluster I will have no Vcenter controlling hosts migration to the new cluster.
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My Vcenter is a Virtual machine on one of the too candidate hosts.  If I shut down the VM's  to join cluster I will have no Vcenter controlling hosts migration to the new cluster.

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My solution was to spin up &nbsp;a new vm host and use it to hold my Vcenter server so that I could control my VMWare environment and then just move the Vcenter back to the cluster and take down the temporary host.
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My solution was to spin up  a new vm host and use it to hold my Vcenter server so that I could control my VMWare environment and then just move the Vcenter back to the cluster and take down the temporary host.

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I have 2 vsphere 6.5 hosts being managed by a vCenter 6.7. &nbsp;The vCenter is a vm on one of these hosts. &nbsp;My question is how can I create a drs cluster with these 2 hosts when you must turn off the vm's to add host to the cluster.
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I have 2 vsphere 6.5 hosts being managed by a vCenter 6.7.  The vCenter is a vm on one of these hosts.  My question is how can I create a drs cluster with these 2 hosts when you must turn off the vm's to add host to the cluster.

Vcenter and DRS Cluster

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.