Create a VM Sizing Policy in VMware Cloud Director

By using VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal, you can create a VM sizing policy to make available to tenants predefined CPU and memory consumption constraints that they can apply to individual VMs in an organization VDC.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
2. From the secondary left panel, select VM Sizing Policies.
3. Click New.
4. Enter a name for the VM sizing policy, and optionally a description.
5. Click Next.
6. On the CPU page, select the CPU allocation settings that you want to apply to the policy and click Next.
7. Select the memory allocation settings that you want to apply to the policy and click Next.
8. (Optional) Configure additional VM settings as extraConfig parameters, and click Next.
   The Extra Configurations VDC compute policy attribute is a mapping between key and value pairs applied as extra configuration values on a VM.
9. Review the VM sizing policy settings and click Finish.

What to do next

• After you create a VM sizing policy, you can edit only the VM sizing policy name and description. See Edit a VM Sizing Policy in VMware Cloud Director.
• Add a VM Sizing Policy to an Organization VDC in VMware Cloud Director.
• Create a VM Placement Policy within a Provider VDC in VMware Cloud Director.