Chapter 5. Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources
The ability to properly manage available resources for VMs is a key point for the global performance of the infrastructure because a bad design will negatively affect VM behavior and the whole environment. An ESXi can host a limited number of VMs and a good optimization of the available resources ensures best performance. Compared to the physical world, where servers are often equipped with more resources than they need, in a virtualized environment you allocate resources to a VM based on its role and function.
Resource pools are special vSphere objects used to allocate resources to a group of VMs. The use of resource pools allows you to prioritize resources for business-critical VMs when resources are constrained. You can also use resource pools to limit or guarantee access to resources.
This chapter will cover the creation and management of resource pools and how you can assign resources to VMs. In addition, as part of the exam, we will...
