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Introduction to resource pools - vSphere Tutorial
From the course: VMware vSphere: Administer and Manage Resources
Introduction to resource pools
- [Voiceover] In this video I'll explain how resource pools can be used to manage the performance of groups of virtual machines. We can configure resource controls like shares, limits, and reservations on individual virtual machines. But as our environment scales up and includes hundreds or thousands of virtual machines this approach might become impossible to maintain. Resource pools give us a way to group virtual machines together so that resource controls can be configured on a wider scale. One use case for a resource pool is to limit resource consumption by non-critical virtual machines. Let's say for example that you have a group of test VMs that are low priority. You could place them in a resource pool with a CPU and memory limit to ensure that they don't overwhelm your ESXi hosts. You could also create resource pools that ensure the performance of important virtual machines. We can assign high share values or reservations to those important resource pools. But resource controls…
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Introduction to resource pools3m 23s
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Resource pool example2m 30s
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Child resource pools2m 23s
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Resource pools and reservations2m 12s
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Expandable reservations2m 22s
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Resource pool reservation examples2m 34s
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Resource pool demo: Create child resource pools3m 29s
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Resource pool demo: Create tiered resource pools4m 34s
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