Again an interesting discussion we had amongst some colleagues (Thanks Frank, Andrew and Craig! Especially Craig as most text below comes from The Resource Master). The topic was CPU/Memory reservations and more specifically the difference in behavior of these two.
One would expect that both a CPU and Memory reservation would have the same behavior when [...]
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CPU/MEM Reservation Behavior
March 3rd, 2010
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Custom shares on a Resource Pool, scripted
February 24th, 2010
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We’ve spoken about Resource Pools a couple of times over the last months and specifically about shares. (The Resource Pool Priority-Pie Paradox, Resource Pools and Shares.) The common question I received was how can we solve this. The solution is simple: Custom Shares.
However, the operational overhead associated with custom shares is something most people want [...]
DRS Deepdive Blog page
October 27th, 2009
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Over the last week I received a whole bunch of requests to turn the DRS Deepdive articles in a “blog page” so that they would appear up in the menu. That’s what I just did, so you guys can easily find the info you are looking for. I will also try to add a diagram [...]
Which Metrics does DRS use?
October 15th, 2009
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I received a question a while back about DRS initiated VMotions. One of my customers wanted to know which metrics were used by DRS for deciding if a VM needs to be VMotioned to a different host or not. These metrics are:
Host CPU: Active (includes run and ready Mhz)
Host Memory: Active
Just a little something [...]
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