City staff use "load balancer" and "Distributed Resource Scheduler" as if they were the same tool for the permitting portal. What is the correct distinction?
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Short Explanation
DRS seats the VMs on hosts, while a load balancer seats client sessions on application IPs. Mixing those names is like calling a parking attendant a ticket window. One balances compute; the other balances connections.
Full Explanation
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler is a compute feature that places and rebalances virtual machines across ESXi hosts, typically with vMotion. NSX load balancing and NSX Advanced Load Balancer distribute client connections to backend application endpoints behind a virtual IP. They are not two names for one object, and DRS is not a gateway-firewall profile.