Couldn't be at VMworld 2012?  Well, check out this video recorded session, VSP2825: DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions, presented by Ajay Gulati and Aashish Parikh from VMware.

VMware DRS is one of the flagship features of VMware vSphere that provides efficient and zero-touch management of resources in virtual environments. It helps users with the automatic initial placement and load-balancing of VMs on ESX hosts based on VM demands and host capacities while respecting user-specified constraints and resource controls.

In this session, Parikh and Gulati from the DRS engineering team will present an insider's view of key concepts, specific use cases and advanced options. And find out more about:

• important resource pool recipes and become a power-user
• keep your VMs happy by discovering the importance of VM resource entitlements
• learn to avoid common pitfalls and effectively load-balance your clusters with new, advanced features and more. 

Finally, this session will give you a sneak peek into DRS labs to check out some bleeding-edge features under consideration that add new functionality and address customer pain-points.