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Resource pools

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll learn about resource pools and vApps. Resource Pools are a container object that are used to group together virtual machines for a few different purposes. The primary purpose is to assign resource controls on a wider scale. So, we can use resource settings like shares, limits, and reservations to control prioritization. Certain VMs, we may want them to get more memory than other VMs, or get higher priority access to memory or C-P-U. In those cases, we're going to give VMs a higher number of shares. Or if we want to place a cap on a certain resource for VM, we can do a limit. Or if we want to guarantee certain resources to a VM, we can assign a reservation. But these resource controls become a little bit unmanageable if you continue to try to control them at an individual virtual machine level, so as your environment scales up, you may want to take advantage of resource pools in order to apply a set of controls across a wide variety of virtual…

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