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Managing Resource Pools 10
A resource pool is a logical abstraction for flexible management of resources. Resource pools can be
grouped into hierarchies and used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources.
Each standalone host and each DRS cluster has an (invisible) root resource pool that groups the
resources of that host or cluster. The root resource pool does not appear because the resources of the
host (or cluster) and the root resource pool are always the same.
Users can create child resource pools of the root resource pool or of any user-created child resource
pool. Each child resource pool owns some of the parent’s resources and can, in turn, have a hierarchy of
child resource pools to represent successively smaller units of computational capability.
A resource pool can contain child resource pools, virtual machines, or both. You can create a hierarchy of
shared resources. The resource pools at a higher level are called parent resource pools. Resource pools
and virtual machines that are at the same level are called siblings. The cluster itself represents the root
resource pool. If you do not create child resource pools, only the root resource pools exist.
In the following example, RP-QA is the parent resource pool for RP-QA-UI. RP-Marketing and RP-QA are
siblings. The three virtual machines immediately below RP-Marketing are also siblings.
Figure 101. Parents, Children, and Siblings in Resource Pool Hierarchy
root resource pool
siblings
siblings
parent resource pool
child resource pool
For each resource pool, you specify reservation, limit, shares, and whether the reservation should be
expandable. The resource pool resources are then available to child resource pools and virtual machines.
Note In this chapter, "Memory" refers to physical RAM.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Why Use Resource Pools?
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Create a Resource Pool
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Edit a Resource Pool
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