reservation

– Amount of resources that is guaranteed to be available to the virtual machine. If resource utilization is less than the reservation, other running virtual machines can use the resources.

limit

– Upper limit for CPU or memory resources assigned to this virtual machine. The virtual machine does not exceed this limit, even if resources are available. This property is typically used to ensure consistent performance. If end users are used to work on a virtual machine that uses extra resources, and additional virtual machines are added to the host or resource pool, the virtual machine might slow down noticably. If set to -1, no fixed upper limit on resource usage has been set.

shares

– Metric for allocating memory or processing capacity among multiple virtual machines. The

SharesInfo

data object has two properties,

level

and

shares

.

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.