For a test platform, you may wish to
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let users
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work with more compute resources than are present in your servers.
To allow oversubscription for a test platform, create compute load level rules for CPU and RAM for each server.
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Privileges: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage allocation rules |
Go to Infrastructure → Private
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Select a datacenter
If you are in Map view or Statistics view,
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to go to Servers view, at the top of the Datacenters list, click the Server symbol
Go to Allocation rules
On the Global panel, click the + add button
Select the
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Load level compute
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rule type
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Complete the dialog, selecting the server and setting values above 100% for CPU and for RAM
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Server
Select All or a specific server.
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Field
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Value
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Rule type
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Rack
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Select All or a specific rack
If you are using
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vCenter clusters as servers, select
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Server
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If you are using vCenter
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hosts
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Aggregate
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Select to create a rule for the sum of all resources in a group (datacenters, racks, or clusters). This means that the platform will sum all of the resources in the group and calculate the load level percentage of the total in order to determine the available resources for the group.
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Service Port
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The port used by the cloud nodes to connect to the storage technology
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RAM
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Percentage usage of memory to allow. We DO NOT recommend the overallocation of RAM
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CPU cores
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, select Server or Cluster
Complete the dialog:
Optionally, select a specific server
For RAM and CPU cores set values above
100%
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