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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. 

Warning

We do not recommend the use of oversubscription for a production environment.
The platform allocates the resources to the virtualization technology, but the virtualization technology is responsible for managing the resources.
Always consult the virtualization provider's documentation to determine safe values for your environment, for example, https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003497

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PrivilegePrivileges: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage allocation rules

  1. Go to Infrastructure

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  1. Private

  2. Select a datacenter

  3. If you are in Map view or Statistics view,

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  1. to go to Servers view, at the top of the Datacenters list, click the Server symbol

  2. Go to Allocation rules

  3. On the Global panel, click the

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  1. + add button

  2. Select the

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  1. Load level compute

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  1. rule type

    1. If you are using vCenter clusters as servers, select Server

    2. If you are using vCenter hosts, select Server or Cluster

  2. Complete the dialog

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  1. :

    1. Optionally, select a specific server

    2. For RAM and CPU cores set values above 100%

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