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Sajal Debnath
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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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Managing resource pools


Here, we will discuss how to create and manage resource pools in a vCenter environment. We can use the following cmdlets to manage resource pools:

  • Get-ResourcePool

  • Move-ResourcePool

  • New-ResourcePool

  • Remove-ResourcePool

  • Set-ResourcePool

As the name suggests, Get-ResourcePool provides you the details of the existing resource pools. Since we have enabled DRS in Lab Cluster, a default resource pool is already created (a root resource pool). The following are the details of this pool with default values:

Next, we will create a new resource pool named Mgmt with the following characteristics:

  • It will be created under the default Resources resource pool

  • The CpuExpandableReservation parameter is set to True

  • The CpuReservationMhz parameter is set to 500

  • The CpuSharesLevel parameter is set to High

  • The MemExpandableReservation parameter is set to True

  • The MemReservationGB parameter is set to 1

  • The MemSharesLevel parameter is set to High

In the following example, we have run the...

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Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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