Introduction to vSphere Clusters

Clusters are useful with VMware DRS (distributed resource scheduler) and VMware HA (high availability). Clusters can be created quickly with VMware HCI. This guide briefly introduces the vSphere interfaces for cluster configuration. Clusters are useful to reduce power use, downtime, and maintenance.

  • VMware DRS. vSphere Resource Management guide
  • VMware HA. vSphere Availability guide
  • VMware HCI, Hyper-converged infrastructure. In vSphere Client, click New Cluster.