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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" chapter, Post-Installation Administrative Tasks 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