Resource Pool Use Cases

Question 1

Flexible hierarchical organization

Answer 1

Add, remove, modify, and reorganize resource pools, as needed.

Question 2

Resource isolation

Answer 2

Use resource pools to allocate resources to separate departments, in such a manner that changes in a pool do not unfairly impact other departments.

Question 3

Access control and delegation

Answer 3

Use permissions to delegate activities, such as virtual machine creation and management, to other administrators.

Question 4

Separation of resources from hardware

Answer 4

In a DRS cluster, perform resource management independently of the actual hosts.

Question 5

Managing multitier applications.

Answer 5

Manage the resources for a group of virtual machines (in a specific resource pool), which is easier than managing resources per virtual machine.