Using policies to specify thresholds in Capacity Pools

Use Policies to specify various thresholds at the Capacity Pool level. To edit policies, do the following:

1. Click Reservations > Capacity Pools.
2. In the Capacity Pools page, click the name of the capacity pool to view its details.
3. In the capacity pool page, click  Policies.

4. In the Policies for <capacity pool> page, click Edit and edit any of the following options:

   Property	Description
   Thresholds for allocation-based placement	To set thresholds for allocation-based resource comparison method, set the Use Threshold from option to one of the following: Capacity Pool policy: Select this option to apply the threshold set at the Capacity Pool level to all aggregated Reservation Targets. When you select this option, you must specify the threshold values in the Good and Warning boxes. Contained Elements: Select this option to use the threshold specified at the Reservation Target level.
   Thresholds for utilization-based placement	To set thresholds for utilization-based resource comparison method, set the Use Threshold from option to one of the following: Capacity Pool policy: Select this option to apply the threshold set at the Capacity Pool level to all aggregated Reservation Targets. When you select this option, you must specify the threshold values in the Good and Warning boxes. Contained Elements: Select this option to use the threshold specified at the Reservation Target level.
   Baseline projected growth	To specify a value, in percentage, to represent the estimated monthly growth on CPU Utilization Growth, Memory Utilization Growth and Storage Utilization Growth in the next 12 months, do one of the following: Click Use default growth to use the default value as specified in the Reservations Settings page. This option is selected by default. Click Specify custom growth to use a custom value. Type a value in the % / month box, or to use the measured trend value, click . That value is copied in the % / month box. indicates that a projected growth value is disabled. Click to enable it. indicates that a utilization value is enabled. You can also change a value by clicking and typing a new value in the % / month box. For more information on how you can use the baseline projected growth values, see Reservations trend growth example.

5. Click Save.
   After you specify thresholds at the Capacity Pool level, the threshold for all Reservation Targets associated to the Capacity Pool are updated to use the same value. If a Reservation Target belongs to different Capacity Pools, the most recently updated threshold is applicable. If you explicitly set thresholds at the Reservation Target level, the value, if specified, at the Capacity Pool level is overridden.If a Reservation Target belongs to different Capacity Pools, the latest trend value is applicable. You cannot override this value for a single Reservation Target. It is recommended that you do not share a Reservation Target between multiple capacity pools.

Example of the Edit policies screen