ResourceAllocation

Specify limit, shares and reservation for all kinds of traffic. Values for limit and reservation are expressed in percentage. And for shares, the value is expressed as a number between 1-100. The overall reservation among all traffic types should not exceed 75%. Otherwise, the API request will be rejected.

JSON Example

{
    "limit": "number",
    "reservation": "number",
    "shares": 0,
    "traffic_type": {
        "dynamic_res_pool_name": "string",
        "traffic_name": "string"
    }
}

number

limit

Required

Constraints: minimum: -1 maximum: 100 default: -1

The limit property specifies the maximum bandwidth allocation for a given traffic type and is expressed in percentage. The default value for this field is set to -1 which means the traffic is unbounded for the traffic type. All other negative values for this property is not supported and will be rejected by the API.

number

reservation

Required

Constraints: minimum: 0 maximum: 75 default: 0

Minimum guaranteed bandwidth percentage

integer As int32 As int32

Required

Constraints: minimum: 1 maximum: 100 default: 50

HostInfraTrafficType

traffic_type

Required

The traffic_name specifies the infrastructure traffic type and it must be one of the following system-defined types: FAULT_TOLERANCE is traffic for failover and recovery. HBR is traffic for Host based replication. ISCSI is traffic for Internet Small Computer System Interface. MANAGEMENT is traffic for host management. NFS is traffic related to file transfer in network file system. VDP is traffic for vSphere data protection. VIRTUAL_MACHINE is traffic generated by virtual machines. VMOTION is traffic for computing resource migration. VSAN is traffic generated by virtual storage area network. The dynamic_res_pool_name provides a name for the resource pool. It can be any arbitrary string. Either traffic_name or dynamic_res_pool_name must be set. If both are specified or omitted, an error will be returned.

Property Of

DVSConfig