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    This document provides an introduction to configuring resource allocation settings for virtual machines in vSphere, including shares, limits, and reservations. It begins with a video explaining scalable shares in vSphere 7 for distributing compute and memory resources. The document then discusses how shares specify the relative importance of VMs and influence how resources are allocated when VMs compete for resources. It provides an example comparing share settings for development and production VMs. The remainder guides the user through changing the CPU shares setting for a Windows 10 VM in the lab environment. It also notes that limits restrict maximum resource use while reservations guarantee a minimum allocation. Finally, it briefly introduces VMware vMotion for live migrating VMs to minimize downtime during hardware maintenance.

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    This document provides an introduction to configuring resource allocation settings for virtual machines in vSphere, including shares, limits, and reservations. It begins with a video explaining scalable shares in vSphere 7 for distributing compute and memory resources. The document then discusses how shares specify the relative importance of VMs and influence how resources are allocated when VMs compete for resources. It provides an example comparing share settings for development and production VMs. The remainder guides the user through changing the CPU shares setting for a Windows 10 VM in the lab environment. It also notes that limits restrict maximum resource use while reservations guarantee a minimum allocation. Finally, it briefly introduces VMware vMotion for live migrating VMs to minimize downtime during hardware maintenance.

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    This document provides an introduction to configuring resource allocation settings for virtual machines in vSphere, including shares, limits, and reservations. It begins with a video explaining scalable shares in vSphere 7 for distributing compute and memory resources. The document then discusses how shares specify the relative importance of VMs and influence how resources are allocated when VMs compete for resources. It provides an example comparing share settings for development and production VMs. The remainder guides the user through changing the CPU shares setting for a Windows 10 VM in the lab environment. It also notes that limits restrict maximum resource use while reservations guarantee a minimum allocation. Finally, it briefly introduces VMware vMotion for live migrating VMs to minimize downtime during hardware maintenance.

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    HOL-2210-01-SDC: Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere

    New Alarm Created

    If the Alarm Name field is still filtering by "cpu", the newly created alarm is displayed. If not, simply click on the Alarm Name field and
    type cpu ready to see it.

    Configure Shares and Resources

    Shares specify the relative importance of a virtual machine (or resource pool). If a virtual machine has twice as many shares of a
    resource as another virtual machine, it is entitled to consume twice as much of that resource when these two virtual machines are
    competing for resources. This lab starts with a video walking you through the process of working with shares and resources. The
    remainder of this module walks you through making the changes to a VM's resources.

    Shares are typically specified as High, Normal, or Low

    Video: DRS with Scalable Shares in vSphere 7 (4:17)

    This video explains how scalable shares are and how are they used in order to effectively distribute compute and memory resources
    among virtual machines.

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    HOL-2210-01-SDC: Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere

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    HOL-2210-01-SDC: Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere

    Shares, Limits and Reservations

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    HOL-2210-01-SDC: Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere

    Understanding Shares

    The above example shows 2 VM's, one a development VM and the other a Production VM. On the left-hand side of the diagram, you
    can see the CPU shares are equal. We want to make sure the Production VM gets the majority of the CPU resources when there is
    contention for those resources in the environment. Changing the shares for the production VM from 1000 shares to 2000 shares
    accomplishes this goal. The new settings are shown on the right side of the diagram.

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    Review CPU settings

    1. Right click the windows10 virtual machine.


    2.Select Edit Settings...

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    HOL-2210-01-SDC: Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere

    Changing Resource Allocation of CPU shares.

    Note the current setting for Shares is set to 1000.

    1. Expand the CPU section of the settings.


    2.From the Shares drop down box, Click High to change the setting of the CPU shares.
    3.Click OK

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    Review Settings

    1. The new Shares setting of 2000 is now shown in the VM Hardware section.

    2.You may have to expand the VM Hardware section to see it.

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    Settings for Limits and Reservations.

    Limits and Reservations are set with the same procedure. When you click on the "edit" settings for a VM, you will find the ability to set
    the Limit and Reservations. Limit restricts a VM from using more than the limit setting. Reservations guarantee a minimum amount of a
    resource be available for the virtual machine. Try out some settings for Limits and Reservations. One note is that if you try to reserve
    more of a resource such as memory or CPU than is available, the VM may not power on.

    Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware vMotion

    Planned downtime typically accounts for over 80% of datacenter downtime. Hardware maintenance, server migration, and firmware
    updates all require downtime for physical servers. To minimize the impact of this downtime, organizations are forced to delay
    maintenance until inconvenient and difficult-to-schedule downtime windows.

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