Chapter 6. Resource Management
This chapter focuses on managing available host and storage resources with vCenter.
We will discuss different aspects of resource allocation, such as shares, reservations, limits, and resource pools.
We will also discuss Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS), its requirements, and creating and disabling this feature.
Another topic we will touch on here is power management—a useful feature in vCenter that allows you to reduce power consumption in the datacenter.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Resource allocation—shares, reservations, and limits
Resource pools
DRS requirements
Creating DRS cluster and disabling DRS
Power management
Cluster validity and affinity rules
Resource management is the distribution of resources available from resource providers among resource consumers. These resources are CPU, memory, storage space, power, and network resources. Resource providers are hosts and groups of hosts (also called clusters), as well as datastores. Resource...
