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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Configure the Allocation Model
Configure the allocation model to specify the amount of provider vDC resources to allocate to the organization
vDC.
Procedure
1 Select the allocation model options.
Not all of the models include all of the options.
Option Action
CPU allocation
Enter the maximum amount of CPU, in GHz, to allocate to virtual machines
running in the organization vDC.
CPU resources guaranteed
Enter the percentage of CPU resources to guarantee to virtual machines
running in the organization vDC. You can overcommit resources by
guaranteeing less than 100%.
Memory allocation
Enter the maximum amount of memory, in GB, to allocate to virtual machines
running in the organization vDC.
Memory resources guaranteed
Enter the percentage of memory resources to guarantee to virtual machines
running in the organization vDC. You can overcommit resources by
guaranteeing less than 100%.
vCPU Speed
Enter the vCPU speed in GHz. Virtual machines running in the organization
vDC are assigned this amount of GHz per vCPU.
Maximum number of VMs
Enter the maximum number of virtual machines that can be created in the
organization vDC.
2 Click Next.
Example 3-1. Configuring an Allocation Model
When you create an organization vDC, Cloud Director creates a vSphere resource pool based on the allocation
model settings you specify. See Table 3-1, Table 3-2, and Table 3-3.
Table 3-1. How Allocation Pool Settings Affect Resource Pool Settings
Allocation Pool
Setting
Allocation Pool
Value Resource Pool Setting Resource Pool Value
CPU Allocation 25 GHz CPU Limit 25 GHz
CPU % Guarantee 10% CPU Reservation 2.5 GHz
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