Chapter 5. Optimizing Resource Usage
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Prioritizing VMs with shares
- Ensuring VMs have enough resources to run
- Limiting resources used by VMs
- Grouping VMs by resource usage
- Balancing loads between hosts
- Balancing loads between datastores
- Configuring storage load balancing thresholds
- Limiting VM storage I/O consumption
- Limiting VM network I/O consumption