Shares, reservation, and limit are settings used to allocate and manage memory resources for VM:
- Shares: Specifes the priority of a VM to get resources during a period of contention. When resources in a ESXi host are limited and the VMs compete to access resources, the VMs configured with higher shares will have higher priority to access more of the host's resources. Shares can be specified as High, Normal, or Low with a ratio of 4:2:1 and should be used for resource pools or sibling VMs (sibling VMs have the same parent in the resource pool hierarchy).
- Reservation: Specifies the minimum allocation guaranteed to a VM. When the VM is powered on, the server assigns resources based on the specified minimum reservation regardless ...