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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Resource pool configuration 

To create a resource pool in a cluster (this procedure is similar for the single ESXi host), proceed as follows:

  1. Right-click the cluster and select the New Resource Pool option.
  2. Specify a name for the resource pool, giving a meaningful name that's useful to identify the resource scope better.
  1. Specify how CPU and RAM resources should be allocated, and then click OK. When the resource pool has been created, you can start adding VMs to it. Share values set as High, Normal, or Low specify share values in a 4:2:1 ratio, as shown in the following screenshot:

Reservations, Limits, and Shares work the same as with ...

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