VMWare Resource Pool

[Netwacky87]

Hiya,

 

Im confused (It doesnt take much to be honest!)

 

Can someone please explain to me how Resource Pools work for VMWare ESXi? How is the CPU calculated?....my head hurts *Goes for a lie down!*

[psydii]

My take on them is they allow you to group up and apply resource constraints to VMs that one really should leave alone.

[Netwacky87]

Its a new ESXi host so just wondering if there is a best way/best practice to set it up for resource allocation

[kmount]

Resource Pools are a great argument starter when you talk to a bunch of VMware guys together about how each person uses them in their implementations.

 

I like the way Joshua approaches it in this blog post, worth a read - VMware vSphere Resource Pools - Resource Allocation Revisited