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I'm trying to configure a cluster in VMware vCenter 5.1 with DRS and DPM activated to put higher load on physical hosts (90% instead of default 63 %) and power off machines that are not needed.

According to this VMware's KB article

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007560

it should be possible via setting the DemandCapacityRatioTarget option. However setting this option seems to have no effect and DPM continues to optimize load on physical hosts around 60%.

Is there anything else I should do?

I'm using vCenter 5.1 and ESXi 5.1.

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