I have written a few articles that show you how to configure “Reservations” in vCAC. In this article I’m going to dig in to some details around “Reservations”, how they work, and the additional options that are available for them.
What are Reservations?
Reservations are a way for Enterprise Administrators to provide a subset of resources to the users within the organization. When a reservation is created it is assigned to a specific Provisioning Group and only a single Provisioning Group. They are a construct within vCAC and are not related to “Resource Pools” in vCenter. They can however be mapped to one which we will discuss. There are (3) primary types of Reservations:
- Virtual Reservations
- Cloud Reservations
- Physical Reservations
Virtual Reservations
Virtual Reservations are used to allocate resources for the following:
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCloud Director
- Hyper-V Hosts
- Hyper-V managed by SCVMM
- Xen Server