SimpliVity update manager for VMware updates on a cluster without DRS functionality

[CadenLange]

Hi

Is there any benefit in using SimpliVity update manager for ESXi updates if you don't have DRS licensed? Is it even supported to do it without DRS?

If you need to manaully evacuate each host of VM's before you can use Update Manager to upgrade the ESXi, then you might as well just update VMware using VMware esxcli commands using the SimpliVity offline bundle. Or perhaps I'm missing a trick here.

many thanks