Manage Your Resource Pools

The Manage your resource pools link on the Administration page lets an administrator view, add, edit, and delete pools of resources.

You can view more information about a pool by clicking the Name link or selecting Details from the Actions menu.

See the Administration Guide, "Setting Up Reservation Manager" section for details about performing the following actions:

Permit users to perform some administrative tasks
Set overcommitment of memory on ESX server or cluster
Specify a folder for a virtual machine
Note: You can specify a variable %ORGUNIT% to organize the VM folder structure based on the organizational unit of the reservation.
Specify a prefix for virtual machine names
Create a resource pool using a service
Create a resource pool
Control the power status of IBM PowerVM Logical Partitions
Edit a resource pool
Manage snapshots in resource pools (VMware only)
Run frequently used reports
Provide grace period to restore a VM after it is returned
Manage remote console access (VMware Only)