vSphere 6.5 includes additional resource management features that are useful to optimize the virtual infrastructure performance and the efficiency of hardware components, such as storage devices and network resources.

Storage I/O Control (SIOC), Storage DRS (SDRS), Storage Based Policy Management (SBPF), and other storage-related features (they were covered in Chapter 7, Advanced Storage Management), are used to control and optimize storage performance and resource availability.

Network resources can be allocated and controlled through the vSphere Network I/O Control feature to solve situations of resource contention. Network resources were discussed in Chapter 6, Advanced Network Management.