I thought I would share a quick demonstration showing how Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) load balances VMs at power on to ensure optimal performance.
This is just one of the many seemingly simple functions of AHV to ensure optimal performance throughout the cluster. Its pretty simple, when AHV issues a Power On request it queries the Acropolis Master which continually receives compute (CPU/RAM) and Storage (Capacity/Performance) data from the Acropolis Slaves (other nodes) in the cluster.
When the Acropolis Master receives the power on request it simply looks for the node with the lowest utilization and issues the command to power on the VM.
This is a simple, proactive way of minimising the chance of compute contention within a cluster.
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