Thou shalt not use Resource Pools as Folders ... no .. really .. don't

jibbajabba

So why is this a (really) bad idea.

I think most companies I have worked for doing that. I am surely guilty of doing it myself.
I prefer the cluster view but still want to separate VMs. Folders won't work on VM level (unless of course you are in the VM view) so people tend to use Resource Pools.

In most environments it probably doesn't even matter. I worked in big corporates - they don't care if something is slow - they just throw more resources at the VM not fixing the underlying issue. Not realising that bloody resource pools are to blame. Plus they don't care who gets the higher amount of shares - they are all equally important.

Hosting companies - same principal .. Each customer has the same right to the resources, so who cares if one runs slower than the other, right ? Wrong ...

So here an example .. This environment (created Resources Pools in my lab just for the sake of demonstrating the issue as I cannot post screenshots of customer's environments).

In this environment, resource pools are really really bad .. because of the use of vCloud Director. ANd worse worse, because the vCloud Director pool is further down the chain.



So, here is why it is really bad ... two 'Main' Resource Pools.

-- Production
-- Development



So, you got vApps and Resource Pools in the top tree.

Here each vApp and Resource Pool get 16% shares of expandable resources - 16%

Let's go further down the production tree - as this is where vCloud Director sits.

-- Production
---- Clients
---- Own Stuff



Each Resource Pool getting 50% ... that is 50% of 16% ... that's 8% expandable resources !!

Let's go down further into the Clients pool - still chasing that vCloud Director pool


-- Production
---- Clients

---

Non-vCD

---

vCloud Director

Each Resource Pool getting again 50% ... that is 50% of 50% of 16% ... 4% expandable resources !!

And that is when you get errors like that in vCloud Director



So VMware, for the love of vGod, give us folders in the DC view

kj0

You're one Angry man. :P

To be honest, until I read your debate in your VCAP thread, I had never really thought about using them as folders. Smaller environment and fairy easy to manage, but I would just like it if when under a cluster, they kept them under that host - I understand there could be something against HA/DRS moving them. What about several different views.. Folders/Hosts/etc.




Also, love the vCrucial domain - Went to finally spend a day getting it set up and noticed it was down.