During our session at the Dutch VMUG Frank was explaining Resource Pools and the impact of limits and reservations. As I had the feeling not everyone in the room was using resource pools I asked the following questions: How many people are using Resource Pools today? Out of the roughly 300 people who attended our session 80 showed their hands. [...]

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 to avoid. Luckily for [...]