Implementing shares, limits, and reservations on resource pools

Shares, limits, and reservation settings can be viewed under the Manage tab of every virtual machine, and can be configured individually for every resource. The following image shows shares, limits and reservations of a particular virtual machine:

Implementing shares, limits, and reservations on resource pools

To modify the settings or configure the shares, limits, and reservations on any of the resource, click on the Edit button on the VM hardware section, and under the Edit Settings page, select the desired configuration for every resource. For example, the following screenshot illustrates modification of share allocation for a vCPU for a VM: ...

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