15.11. Service-level Agreement Policy Enforcement

⁠15.11. Service-level Agreement Policy Enforcement

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 supports service-level agreement CPU features. These features can be accessed through the Administrator Portal.

Summary

This procedure describes how to set service-level agreement CPU features.

Select New VM in the Navigation Pane.
Select Show Advanced Options.
Select the Resource Allocation tab.
Specify CPU Shares. Possible options are Low, Medium, High, Custom, and Disabled. Virtual machines set to High receive twice as many shares as Medium, and virtual machines set to Medium receive twice as many shares as virtual machines set to Low. Disabled instructs VDSM to use an older algorithm for determining share dispensation; usually the number of shares dispensed under these conditions is 1020.

Result

You have set a service-level agreement CPU policy. Users' CPU consumption is now governed by the policy you have set.

Figure 15.1. Service-level Agreement Policy Enforcement - CPU Allocation Menu