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• Requirements for the use of Resource Pools

  VMware says this about the Enterprise more than vSphere version:

  Delegation and control of resource pool. Guarantee

  allocation of resources to different levels in society. For example,.

  When a top-level administrator makes available a list of resources of a

  use of across the Department, all virtual machine creation and management can be

  made by the administrator of Department within the limits

  assigned to the resource pool.

  Having said that pools of resources cannot be created without the Enterprise more than VMware version? Or is he just saying that there is additional capacity to delegate control on resource pools in the company and others that it is in other versions?

  Thanks for your comments.

  Enterprise Plus is not required to create and use pools of resources.   With respect to the issuance of licenses to create/use the resource pools, a free license would suffice even.  The characteristics of Advance you are referring to a probably related specifically to the business + licenses.

• Use / dedicated resource pool for resources upgrade/calendar

  Hi all
  I use the dedicated resource pool (each worker has its own calendar, crafts and scheduled vacation) same calendar is also used by any project I'm doing for the annex. We have 9 hours working day Monday-Thursday while Friday, we work for 8 hours as replacement Friday is turned off (annex 9/80). However, I have the resources allocated to the tasks, but when I check my sheet to use resources that some of my resources are also working on the days that are disabled (for example on Fridays) and also the resources work only 8 hours a day while the calendar is set for 9 a.m. schedule.
  I use these schedule and all the parameters of the previous planner that I replace which unfortunately could not transfer the knowledge for a beginner like me. I think I do a good job my employer is concerned that it is not so unhappy, but I know that I have room for improvement.
  If I could figure this thing out, I'll have my use of time by the pool of resources that I have and that's what I want to see.
  I could use the upgrade provided by the primavera, but it cannot take effect as I want, so fixing the problem that I mentioned above can help me more have leveled and responsible program.
  My next step after solving this problem is going to be track cost using primavera (currently we do on spreadsheets).
  Looking forward to hear from you all experienced pros.
  Thank you.
  Rahul deep

  Hello. go to the tab of the default for the selected project project detail. set the default calendar for new activities to the desired calendar (for example the global calendar you want as well your activities and resources to use).
  You can consider using dependent on resources like the default activity type for new activities (which will plan duration of activity according to the resource calendar (s) when planning)
  hope this helps,
  Tibi

• Issue of booking Resource Pool

  We used vSphere for a long time and this is the first instance where we watched in the use of resource pools to manage cluster resources.  What we try to do is pool funds from several different material groups buy and then distributed in equal shares of resources between these groups, but allow others to expand beyond what their fair share guaranteed if the resources are not being used by other groups.  And if the other groups are starting to need these resources in return, we want vSphere to restore "ready" transparently resources without causing any VM power issues etc.

  I'm pretty sure resource pools set reservations equal to assignment to a specific group is the way to go here.  If I understand correctly, resource pool bookings do not behave as the reserves of the VM, and even though I had to reserve 100% of cluster across pools resources collectively, a resource pool could grow beyond its reservation as long as there was no pretense.  When the contention starts, additional resources to a pool of resources will be taken away, but only to him guaranteed booking.

  Is my understanding of this is all correct?  Am I sure can cause problems, or a better way to accomplish this task?  Thanks in advance.

  It's the way I used to teach on reservations - think a restaurant which has 100 chairs - like the power of virtual machines on they have a number of chairs that they reserved - if the virtual machine needs more chairs he will get more chairs as long that other virtual machines do not use chairs they reserved - not what happens if all the chairs are reserved - the virtual machine will be not able to come into the restaurant (power on) even if there are empty chairs - if expandable restaurants reservations are activated a call is made to the room dining upstairs (the parent pool) to see if there are chairs available - this works in the same way for memory and cpu but memory has the ability to use the by vm vmkernel swap file and continue my analogy if all chairs are so reserved and a virtual machine appears they could sit on the patio, which can make the conversation (hard affect performance).

  When a virtual machine is turned off (leave the restaurant) it will come out of his reserve make room for several virtual machines.

• Use of the Resource Pool with vSphere Essentials

  A silly question but I have to ask anyway:

  I have a license of vSphere Essentials with my two hosts ESXi4.  I knew that he was not in vSphere DRS.  What was not so obvious to me, it's that you need DRS activated in order to create a pool of resources to the cluster level vSphere without it.  (The option to create a new cluster is grayed out). http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004098

  So my question is:

  Are there benefits to creating a cluster if you do not have DRS?  I now have to double and create pools of resources at the level of the host for two guests, who is an administrative burden.  In addition, one of the main reasons I have used resource pools was to facilitate the access rights based upon roles to specific virtual machines.   These two will now have to be defined for each host.

  We greatly appreciate your comments on this

  Other than the ability to use the VCA mode and setting up the location of the pagefile.  According to me, there isn't much more to a cluster if you use no HA or DRS.  Since you do not have DRS yor cannot create pools of resources that span multiple hosts within a cluster.

  You will need to create individual pools of resources on each host by taking your host from a cluster and have just in the data center.

  OBM

• Resource pool limit Datastore Quota

  Hello

  I need to limit the quota of data store for a specific group, e.g. they can only allocate 1 TB to 10 TB data store for their virtual machines.

  CPU and RAM are possible with resource pools, but how can I accomplish this with data warehouses?

  what you are asking for can be easily achieved in vRealize Automation or vCloud Director.

  But in the vSphere environment, you have to achieve by using roles and permissions, where you create datastore with limited storage space and assign permission to users wished to not to exceed the use of storage space after certain limit. That way they won't see all data warehouses and they will not be able to use all the space.

• Monitor the IOPS / s in a Resource Pool?

  Hello world

  I am quite new to vROM and just get your feet wet for me.  I've been delving into the book "Mastering Operations Manager vRealize" useful and which was helpful, but I'm trying to understand an important piece on:

  We have pools of different resources for different departments within our Organization, and I try to get a good graph for IOPS / s in each resource pool.  I was able to get a list of all virtual machines in a resource pool by creating a dashboard with the widget resource pool game object selector, then use "Diagnose e/s disk of the Virtual Machine list" view to see all the virtual machines within the list of resources and then for the summary allows you to SUM add them all together.  This gives me a number, but does nothing for this over time.  I'd like to be able to see that number over the next few months (even if it means just go ahead of data today onward, not historical).

  Any ideas?  I think I must be missing something, like the Resource Pool looks like it would be a good way to measure the impact of the drive.  Folder of the Virtual Machine might work also, but is not as clean as I would like.

  Hello world

  Right after I got this resolved so I thought I would mention it here in case anyone else is curious.  It has to do with the SuperMetrics.

  The formula I created is as follows:

  SUM (${adapterkind = VMWARE, resourcekind = VirtualMachine, attribute is virtualDisk | commandsAveraged_average, depth = 1})

  It takes the sum of all virtual machines to a level under the resource pool.  I also used average and Max values, because this helps to show trends and you have aberrant VMs eating a ton of IOPS / s.

  I received lots of help from Iwan Rahabok virtual red point.  Specifically, this thread here: http://virtual-red-dot.info/any-vm-abusing-your-iaas-by-doing-excessive-workload/

• Reservation of CPU Resource Pool

  Hello everyone

  I need feedback on pools of resources, and in particular for the CPU share uses.

  I read the "Mastering Vmware vSphere 5.5" and I understand how Vmware works for the share of the CPU.

  I have the a customer who want to buy me a resource pools for this virtual machine management. He will buy vCPU 26 and 64 GB of RAM.

  I know how to set up the RAM, but I did not how to do for the CPU.

  I started by 26 multiples by the clock of the CPU, but the value is higher or lower than 1 ESXi. So I think I made a mistack.

  Can someone help me to understand how do for the CPU resource pool.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Best regards

  Matt

  Hi Matt,

  Personally, I put a limit of 2 GHz by heart. CPU host have 3.0 GHz. On this way a big vm as you can 'kill' the host and other virtual machines on it.

  When you use the same limit, you will need to set the limit at 52000 MHz (26 x 2000 MHz Cores).

  Kind regards

  Patrick

• N + 1 configuration with 4 physical blades that are assigned to a single resource pool

  I want to be able to define an N + 1 configuration where a resource pool gets the power of equivalent treatment of the 3-blade expandable in the fourth blade. In addition, I want to make it worth the custom action that ensures that the resource pool gets all the time shared four physical hosts in contention.

  Here is the command I use to customize this value. All I need to know is how to customize the number of shares to ensure that he is the owner of all the time the equivalents 4 blades in our cluster.

  Together-ResourcePool - ResourcePool (Get-ResourcePool 'STI WinSTIS Lab"- location xen01) MemReservationGB - 767.795356750488 - MemExpandableReservation 255.931785583496 - CpuReservationMhz 167940 - CpuExpandableReservation 55980 - CpuSharesLevel custom - NumCpuShares? -Confirm

  Please look at the picture to see the stats on the host machine. Thanks in advance for the help.

  As far as I know, the number of shares of CPU of a resourcepool is a relative number you should see with regard to the number of shares of the other resourcepools CPU.

  Chris has a very informative post, with a PowerCLI script on the subject, see Understanding the in VMware vSphere Resource Pools

• Automation of Resource Pool

  I'm currently being responsible to try to automate the allocation of resource pool in our clusters.  Currently our operations team has trouble to the size of the resource automatically, pools or systems are migrated and stocks of resource pool are not delivered to the appropriate amount.  Is there a way I can automate amounts related to actions based on memory and CPU for all VM in an existing pool.

  For example.

  Resource pool includes 7 virtual machines for a total memory 100 000 and 10,000 shares of CPU.  System is migrated on and now the list of resources should be 80,000 memory and 6 000 CPU.  Is there a way to get Orchestrator for the calculation for this and change the list of resources accordingly?

  Ben

  Check out Duncan Eppings post here:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/02/24/custom-shares-on-a-resource-pools-scripted/

  These scripts were performed in powershell, but the idea was a weekly script that you can run to automatically maintain the list of resources sharing in the balance that you have discussed.  What you have to do is tweak for your needs then either run on a host of powershell of the vCO, or take the logic and translate it into javascript code.

  Hope this is useful!

• pass fails with a missing resource pool alert

  Hi, I have a server dell power edge r510, with ESXi 5.0 is installed in it.

  in one of the virtual machines within this server, I installed Vcenter (I think that it is Version 5.1) everything was stable until the vcenter database gets 10 GB and crashed and I couldn't fix it. So I installed a new windows with vcenter 5.5 inside vps. and for this new vcenter reconnected to the server. so, I've reconfigured resource pools and VPS users again in this new vcenter.

  Watch ESXi host now as does not not to the vcenter. but all virtual machines inside the esxi server work without problems.  I can't reconnect to the host in vcenter, and I can't connect directly to the ESXi via vsphere client and root password.

  but I can log on to the esxi via ssh or console.

  from the console, I restarted the management services, but it does not help.

  the SSH, I ran the following commands:

  status /etc/init.d/vpxa #.

  vpxa is running

  status /etc/init.d/hostd #.

  pass is not running.

  When I restart pass, it is said has started, but after a few minutes still pass fails.

  l # /etc/init.d/hostd restart

  Watchdog - pass: PID of the file/var/run/vmware/watchdog-hostd. PID does not exist

  Watchdog - pass: impossible to end guard dog: no monitoring running processes to pass

  SH: you must specify which kill

  [421281] Begin ' pass ++ min = 0, swap, group = pass etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml', min-uptime = 60, max-fast-failures = 1, max-total-failures = 1000000, bg_pid_file = "

  pass began.

  **********************************************************

  status /etc/init.d/hostd #.

  pass is running.

  ***************************************************************

  but I can't use all the controls of esxcli.

  List of the allowedip of esxcli network firewall ruleset

  Connect to locahost failed: connection failure

  ************************************************************

  status /etc/init.d/hostd #.

  pass is not running.

  ***************************************************************

  I searched the problem on localhost, Ko, said check the CPU usage is below 90%, which is good in my esxtop, then says check network ports and pings, they were right, too, said to check/etc/hosts to 127.0.0.1 localhost entry and checking /etc/resolv.conf and they were right too. as I can ping localhost and localhost nslookup returns 127.0.0.1

  then I started reading the server logs and found this error output of vm-support: hostd.log

  [cntos58-64-Farzin - 105.vmx'] could not get the parameters of resource for a virtual machine under tension

  Award of the VM ' / vmfs/volumes/.../cntos58-64-Farzin-105.vmx' to the root resource pool - configured pool 'pool11' does not exist

  SysInfo error on return operation State: verification of Admission of cpu resource failure. See the VMkernel detailed error information log

  cntos58-64-Farzin - 105.vmx: vim.fault.InsufficientCpuResourcesFault

  *************************************************************************

  How can I change the list of resources of the VM to ssh when esxcli do not work?

  I am facing this problem recently, almost all the 5 days the server will respond is not in vcenter, restart the entire esxi server can solve the problem but it apears again.

  I think that resource in vcenter pools doesn't sync properly with the configuration of esxi, as when I connect to the server directly with root/vshpere it shows different configuration than what I see in vcenter!

  and I can't upgrade esxi host because there are about 10 VPSes important and stable running on this server which is my main server and I can not have time on this server or migrate virtual machines to a different server/IPs.

  because I'm not sure of the compatibility of the versions of drivers/bios nic with ESXi 5.5 and I fear that if I update the ESXi from 5.0 to 5.5 I face other questions strangers/downtime.

  I had the server up and running again, by editing this file: /etc/vmware/hostd/pools.xml

  then I found the VPS with id of the pool of resources 11 evil, changed for another pool of resources as the other virtual machines.

  2014 07-29 T 08: 38:52.64965Z

  2

  pool366

  and then made a

  restart the /etc/init.d/hostd

  all started working again without restarting the whole esxi server and turn off virtual machines, I have searched for about 1 day to solve this simple thing!

  even once when I made a few changes in the vcenter, and then restarted resource pool settings move it in ssh, it fails under vcenter changed the VM resource for a bad configuration pool.

  so I changed the resource pool manually xml and restarted spend, while vcenter can connect to the esxi host.

  then vcenter, again removed all the resource pools and created new resource pools. and this question of time is set.

  There was some resource pool configuration that was imported from esxi host to vcenter which was no longer available and has not been deleted in syncronizations between esxi and vcenter when changed resource pools. and the list of the missing resources caused problems.

• Counting of the virtual machines in a resource pool

  Hello

  I just want to know is how VM in resource pools.

  I tried to use this single line, but when I get the results, some are white.

  What follows is the only line that I used

  Get-resourcepool-location VMW-HACL01-BC9 | Where-Object - FilterScript {($_.)} Name - not "resources") - and ($_.) (Nom-ne "DUMMY-RP1")} | Select Name, @{N = "NumVM"; E={($_ | Get - VM). County}} | Sort-Object Name. Export-Csv-Path "C:\results\vmcount.csv" - NoTypeInformation

  1 VMW-HACL01-BC9 is the name of the cluster.

  2. I wanted to exclude the names of 'Resources' and "DUMMY-RP1" resource pool

  Here are the results I get

  Name                                                                                                              NumVM

  ----                                                                                                              -----

  CK-RP1                                                                                                                2

  CK-RP2                                                                                                                6

  CK-RP3                                                                                                                2

  GKK-RP1                                                                                                               7

  HAC-RP1                                                                                                               3

  HAC-RP2                                                                                                               3

  JP1 - RP1

  KAIGI-RP1                                                                                                             2

  TDA - RP1

  TES-RP1

  THX - RP1

  TIB-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TIB - RP2

  TIB-RP3                                                                                                               3

  TIB - RP4

  TIC-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TID-RP1                                                                                                               3

  TID-RP2                                                                                                               2

  TID - RPT

  TIJ-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TIJ-RP2                                                                                                               2

  TMA - RP1

  TMA - RP2

  TTT-RP3                                                                                                               3

  TTT-RP4                                                                                                               7

  some results are there, but some results are blank.

  How can I get good results? any help would be appreciated.

  I use vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2, Powershell 2.0

  Try like this

  Get-ResourcePool | Select Name, @{N="VM#";E={$_.ExtensionData.Vm.Count}}
  

  Of course, you can insert your Where clause.

• VCO 5.5 - How can I sort a table / VC:VirtualMachine resource pool?

  Hello

  I want to sort a VM of their resource pool table.

  I tried a few things from various research but none of them does not seem to work, but I can't find a lot of reference material.

  where WindowsVMs is an array / VC:VirtualMachine

  WindowsVMs = WindowsVMs.sort (sortVMs);

  I tried these two functions, I also tried the same thing with the name of the virtual machine as a sorting criterion. Doesn't seem to work and the System.log does not create an entry.

  
  function sortVMs(a,b) {}
  return (a.resourcePool.name > b.resourcePool.name);
  System.log ("0");
  }

  function sortVMs(a,b) {}
  var vmA = a.resourcePool.name.toLowerCase ();
  var vmB = a.resourcePool.name.toLowerCase ();
  
  If (vmA < vmB) {string ascending //sort
  Returns - 1
  System.log ("1a < B");
  }
  If (vmA > vmB) {}
  Returns 1
  System.log ("1a > B ');
  }
  
  Returns the return value 0 //default (no sorting)
  System.log ("0");
  }

  
  Any thoughts?

  Concerning

  Mark

  I have managed to get this to work using this function

  function sortVMs(a,b) {}

  If (a.resourcePool.name == b.resourcePool.name) {}

  return 0;

  } ElseIf (a.resourcePool.name > b.resourcePool.name) {}

  Return 1;

  }

  Returns - 1;

  }

• Good candidates for the resource pools?

  Hi, I do not currently use resource pools, but often the impression that I should watch more in him.  We have our four node 5.1 cluster 16 web servers (among others in the virtual computer) that are exactly the same and serve the same function.  I was wondering if those who would be good candidates to be added to a pool of resources, so they can take resources needed?  I tend to approve statically the RAM and CPU on these "just in case", but maybe it's stupid, if there is a better way.  Thank you.

  Also consider that if you have no compelling reason to prioritize resources for all virtual machines on one of the virtual computer, then you really don't have a reason to use the resource to all pools.  In this case, each virtual computer will be given some memory he needs on demand, DRS will balance the load between the hosts if a host is out of balance, and there will be fairness when ESXi pray return of VMs pages when there is a conflict.

  Discover the vSphere resources management Guide, you will find everything you always wanted to know about the Pools of resources and any other topic of management resources in general.

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-51-Resource-Management-Guide.PDF

• CLI command (or script) to determine if a resource pool has enough resources to a virtual machine

  Is there if a VMS resource pool has enough resources available to start the virtual machine WITHOUT triggering an error of vSphere PowerCLI script - or a series of commands - which can be used to determine?

  For reasons of performance test, we use a pool of resources with maximum rates for RAM and CPU.  Each virtual machine in the pool has a reservation for CPU and RAM.  Test automation will try to start VMs as much as possible in the pool during the test.  The CLI will return an error when you start the virtual machine may exceed the amount of allowed resources.  When this happens, an error on the console vSphere "insufficient resources".  Instead of constantly from the virtual machine, fault and generates error - is there a way to check to see if there is enough space?

  Thank you

  Jason

  Hi Jason,

  You can try if the following PowerCLI function is what you need. The function does not resemble stretch bookings.

  function Get-VmStartPossible {
    param($VM)
  
    $VM = Get-VM $VM
    $ResourcePool = $VM | Get-ResourcePool
  
    $CpuReservationUsed = $ResourcePool.ExtensionData.Runtime.Cpu.ReservationUsed
    $VMCpuReservation = $VM.ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.CpuAllocation.Reservation
    $ResourcePoolCpuLimit = $ResourcePool.ExtensionData.Config.CpuAllocation.Limit
  
    $MemoryReservationUsed = $ResourcePool.ExtensionData.Runtime.Memory.ReservationUsed
    $VMMemoryReservation = $VM.ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.MemoryAllocation.Reservation
    $ResourcePoolMemoryLimit = $ResourcePool.ExtensionData.Config.MemoryAllocation.Limit*1MB
  
    if (($CpuReservationUsed + $VMCpuReservation -gt $ResourcePoolCpuLimit) -or ($MemoryReservationUsed + $VMMemoryReservation -gt $ResourcePoolMemoryLimit))
    {
      $false
    }
    else
    {
      $true
    }
  }
  

  You can call the function with:

  Get-VmStartPossible -VM MyVM