diff --git a/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/index.md b/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf3b5a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: "Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs" # Title of the blog post. +date: 2022-07-23T16:25:05-05:00 # Date of post creation. +# lastmod: 2022-07-23T16:25:05-05:00 # Date when last modified +description: "How to remove and (optionally) recreate the vSphere Clustering Services VMs" # Description used for search engine. +featured: false # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar. +draft: true # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered. +toc: true # Controls if a table of contents should be generated for first-level links automatically. +usePageBundles: true +# menu: main +# featureImage: "file.png" # Sets featured image on blog post. +# featureImageAlt: 'Description of image' # Alternative text for featured image. +# featureImageCap: 'This is the featured image.' # Caption (optional). +# thumbnail: "thumbnail.png" # Sets thumbnail image appearing inside card on homepage. +# shareImage: "share.png" # Designate a separate image for social media sharing. +codeLineNumbers: false # Override global value for showing of line numbers within code block. +series: Tips # Projects, Scripts, vRA8 +tags: + - vmware + - vsphere +comment: true # Disable comment if false. +--- + +Way back in 2020, VMware released vSphere 7 Update 1 and introduced the new [vSphere Clustering Services (vCLS)](https://core.vmware.com/resource/introduction-vsphere-clustering-service-vcls) to improve how cluster services like the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) operate. vCLS deploys lightweight agent VMs directly on the cluster being managed, and those VMs provide a decoupled and distributed control plane to offload some of the management responsibilities from the vCenter server. + +![vCLS VM](vcls-vm.png) + +That's very cool, particularly in large continent-spanning environments or those which reach into multiple clouds, but it may not make sense to add those additional workloads in resource-constrained homelabs. And while the vCLS VMs are supposed to be automagically self-managed, sometimes things go a little wonky and that management fails to function correctly, which can negatively impact DRS. + diff --git a/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/vcls-vm.png b/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/vcls-vm.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d08f5df Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/removing-recreating-vcls-vms/vcls-vm.png differ