In VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal , you can add, activate, deactivate, and detach secondary resource pools from a provider virtual data center. You cannot deactivate or detach the primary resource pool on a provider virtual data center.
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About the VMware Cloud Director Workload Placement Engine VMware Cloud Director placement engine determines on which resources, including resource pools, datastores, and networks or network pools, to place the virtual machines (VMs) in a vApp. Based on each VM requirements, the engine makes the placement decision independently for each VM in a vApp.Add a Resource Pool to a VMware Cloud Director Provider Virtual Data Center VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal , you can add one or more secondary resource pools to a provider virtual data center, so that its Pay-As-You-Go and Allocation Pool organization virtual data centers can expand. Activate or Deactivate a Resource Pool on a VMware Cloud Director Provider Virtual Data Center VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal , when you deactivate a resource pool, the memory and compute resources of the resource pool are no longer available to the provider virtual data center. Detach a Resource Pool from a VMware Cloud Director Provider Virtual Data Center VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal , you can detach a secondary resource pool from the provider virtual data center. You cannot detach the primary resource pool from the provider virtual data center. Migrate VMs Between Resource Pools on a VMware Cloud Director Provider Virtual Data Center VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal , you can migrate VMs from one resource pool to another on the same provider virtual data center. You can migrate virtual machines to populate a recently added resource pool, to depopulate a resource pool you plan to decommission, or to manually balance the resources of the provider virtual data center.
