Activate a Lazy Resource Apportioning for an Elastic Flex Organization VDC in VMware Cloud Director

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1.1, for an elastic Flex organization VDC, you can activate a setting for reconfiguration of the resource pools backing the VDC only when necessary.

In earlier VMware Cloud Director releases, the memory and CPU resources are allocated proportionally to the number of virtual machines (VMs) residing in the resource pools backing the Flex organization VDC. Every time you create or power on a new VM, VMware Cloud Director triggers a reconfiguration of the allocated resources in the resource pools.

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1.1, you can set up resource pool reconfiguration to occur only when the resource pool lacks the necessary resources for the specified VM operation. To activate this setting, you must set the vcloud.flex.vdc.lazy.resource.apportioning.enabled parameter to true.

Procedure

1. Log in or SSH as root to the OS of any of the VMware Cloud Director cells.
2. To activate the lazy resource apportioning, run the command.

   /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/cell-management-tool manage-config -n vcloud.flex.vdc.lazy.resource.apportioning.enabled -v true