Hi weinstein5,
Thank you, I've been reading and learn something new every day.
To update on my environment: I've used default share values defined by VMware as described above. Resource pool has custom shares to reflect # of VMs inside (read resources).
RP shares are set to Custom: 15360 = 3GB of low priority (5120 per GB) memory. VMs inside RP have Normal shares (10240).
VM outside resource pool is set to Normal, with default value of shares: 10240
So according to the formula RP will get 15360/(10240+15360) = 60%. VM outside will get 40%. Let's say 1 out f 3 VM inside RP needs memory and so does the VM outside. According to the above VM inside the RP can utilize up to 60% of host's memory, when VM outside can only utilize 40% of host's memory.
Is it correct?
Thanks,
Naz