reservation

– Amount of CPU or memory that is guaranteed available to the resource pool. Reserved resources are not wasted if they are not used. If the utilization is less than the reservation, the resources can be utilized by other resource pools or running virtual machines.

expandableReservation

– In a resource pool with an expandable reservation, the reservation on a resource pool can expand beyond the specified value, if the parent resource pool has unreserved resources. A non-expandable reservation is called a fixed reservation. See Understanding Expandable Reservation. This property is ignored for virtual machines.

limit

– Upper limit for CPU or memory resources assigned to this resource pool. The virtual machine or resource pool does not exceed this limit, even if resources are available. This property is typically used to ensure consistent performance. Set this property to -1 to indicate no fixed upper limit on resource usage.

shares

– Relative metric for allocating memory or processing capacity among multiple resource pools. The

SharesInfo

data object has two properties,

level

and

shares

, that allow you to specify resource allocation.

level
– Choose
high
,
low
, or
normal
to map to a predetermined set of numeric values for shares. See the
API Reference Guide
for the numbers for CPU, memory, and disk shares. Set this property to
custom
to specify an explicit number of shares instead.
shares
– Allows you to specify the number of shares you want to allocate to the resource pool. The allocation is divided evenly between resource pools with the same level.