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About This Book
The vSphere Resource Management Guide describes resource management for VMware
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ESX™, ESXi, and
VMware vCenter™ Server environments.
This guide focuses on the following topics.
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Resource allocation and resource management concepts
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Virtual machine attributes and admission control
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Resource pools and how to manage them
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Clusters, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Distributed Power Management
(DPM), and how to work with them
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Advanced resource management options
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Performance considerations
The vSphere Resource Management Guide covers ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
Intended Audience
This manual is for system administrators who want to understand how the system manages resources and
how they can customize the default behavior. It’s also essential for anyone who wants to understand and use
resource pools, clusters, DRS, or VMware DPM.
This manual assumes you have a working knowledge of VMware ESX and VMware ESXi and of vCenter
Server.
Document Feedback
VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send your
vSphere Documentation
The VMware vSphere™ documentation consists of the combined vCenter Server and ESX/ESXi documentation
set.
VMware, Inc.
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