CCSP · Question #39
Which of the following is a method for apportioning resources that involves setting guaranteed minimums for all tenants/customers within the environment?
The correct answer is A. Reservations. Resource reservations guarantee a minimum amount of resources for a specific tenant or workload, ensuring performance even under contention, distinguishing them from limits or shares.
Question
Which of the following is a method for apportioning resources that involves setting guaranteed minimums for all tenants/customers within the environment?
Options
- AReservations
- BShares
- CCancellations
- DLimits
How the community answered
(30 responses)- A90% (27)
- B3% (1)
- C7% (2)
Why each option
Resource reservations guarantee a minimum amount of resources for a specific tenant or workload, ensuring performance even under contention, distinguishing them from limits or shares.
Resource reservations are a method of apportioning resources where a specific minimum amount of resources (e.g., CPU, memory) is guaranteed to a virtual machine or tenant, ensuring that it always has access to at least that specified capacity, even when the system is under heavy load. This provides predictable performance for critical workloads.
Shares represent a relative priority for resources; while they influence how resources are distributed during contention, they do not guarantee a minimum amount.
Cancellations refer to stopping a resource or service, which is unrelated to resource apportionment methods.
Limits set a maximum amount of resources that a virtual machine or tenant can consume, but they do not guarantee a minimum.
Concept tested: Resource apportionment methods (cloud/virtualization)
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/manage/manage-hyper-v-processor-resources#using-resource-controls
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