ESXi 5.5 System Resource Allocation or System Resource Reservation

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We use vRanger Pro 6 to backup our VM Guests. I have been looking into changes we could make to optimize backup performance and reduce the backup window. I found that Best Practice was to set Service Console Memory to 800MB and CPU to 1500MHz but that applies only to ESX. Does anyone know if VMware has a Best Practice recommendation for the Host System Resource Reservation? I have done a fair amount of searching as well as reading through the Best Practice and Admin guides and cannot find anything. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Matt

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Welcome to the Community - Those settings were to support the Service Console which in essence was a VM used to manage the ESX host - with ESXi there is no longer a Service Console and no longer the need to reserve resources for the Service Console -

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Hi and thank you,

That makes sense so is it best practice to leave this at its defaults as it appears to been changed to some custom configuration by a former engineer. I am wondering in anyone's experience if there is a scenerio for an ESXi environment where modifying the values is required or recommended.