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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">OK. Cool. I mean, worse comes to worse, we move our live hosts out of any resource pool into the “root” directory of the ESXi host. At least we can keep our snapshots handy for disaster recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It’s too bad we can’t easily copy/clone a VM from one resource pool to another as far as I can tell. Well, not without vCentre anyways. It means exporting and importing back in. Which takes a while with thick
provisioned disks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">519-824-4120 Ext 56354<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">lelio@uoguelph.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">www.uoguelph.ca/ccs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ryan Huff [mailto:ryanhuff@outlook.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lelio Fulgenzi<br>
<b>Cc:</b> voyp list, cisco-voip (cisco-voip@puck.nether.net)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] using resource pools to organize VMs - supported?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I understand the TRC, as long as the compute/storage needs are available 100% of the time (no oversubscription) and the storage wasn't dynamically created (thin provision); then I believe you are okay to organize as you see fit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I think you can thin provision, as long as the total storage allocation is always available (which kind of makes dynamic vdisks pointless anyway).<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Aug 29, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’d like to come up with a way to organize our collaboration VMs, especially when upgrades are underway.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t see folders as an option under ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 (using vSphere client only, no vCentre), only resource pools.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I use Resource Pools for this? I’m guessing any VM based resource reservation will take precedence over any resource pool settings?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">519-824-4120 Ext 56354<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs">www.uoguelph.ca/ccs</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1<o:p></o:p></p>
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