From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

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Create resource pools in vSphere 6.7

Create resource pools in vSphere 6.7

- In this video, I'll demonstrate how to create and manage resource pools. And here you can see I'm at the vSphere Client. So I'm going to start by just clicking on Hosts and Clusters. And you'll notice at the moment I have two stand-alone ESXi hosts. These hosts are not currently in a cluster with each other. So I mentioned that just because I can create resource pools either within a stand-alone host or within a DRS cluster. So in this video, I'm going to demonstrate creating a resource pool on an individual host. However, if I had a group of hosts that were clustered together with DRS enabled, I could create a resource pool on the cluster as well. And so let's start by just right clicking this host, and I'm going to choose New Resource Pool. And what the resource pool is essentially a container object. So I'm going to call this resource pool High. And this is an example of one of the ways that I like to use resource…

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