VMware capacity control at cluster level

Abiquo integrates closely with VMware and manages vCenter as a master hypervisor. Now Abiquo 4.2 increases control over workload placement and host capacity as it enables you to set allocation rules for VMware clusters. A cluster rule always has the highest priority over datacenter, rack, and server rules. A cluster rule affects all hosts in a cluster, irrespective of their state, for example, it applies to hosts that are powered off. The platform will now display clusters in the Servers tree in Infrastructure view.


When you are creating a load level compute rule, the new Aggregate checkbox enables you to create a rule for the sum of all resources in a group (datacenters, racks or clusters) and calculate the load level percentage of the total in order to determine the available resources for the group.