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VMware vCenter Cookbook

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
Book Image

VMware vCenter Cookbook

By: Kostantin Kuminsky

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vCenter Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Optimizing Resource Usage

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Prioritizing VMs with shares

  • Ensuring VMs have enough resources to run

  • Limiting resources used by VMs

  • Grouping VMs by resource usage

  • Balancing loads between hosts

  • Balancing loads between datastores

  • Configuring storage load balancing thresholds

  • Limiting VM storage I/O consumption

  • Limiting VM network I/O consumption