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  • 1.  New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out

    Posted Jan 04, 2011 05:42 AM

    Greetings,

    When I r. click either the cluster or a host, my (create a) "New Resource Pool" task in the context menu is grayed-out.

    (I am logged on with administrator priveleges...)

    Ideas?

    Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 04, 2011 08:21 AM

    Is DRS enabled?

    /Rubeck



  • 3.  RE: New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out

    Posted Jan 04, 2011 09:15 AM

    Rubeck is right, you are unable to create a resource pool if DRS is disabled. One way to test out further is login to the ESX standalone, the resource pool would not be greyed out.



  • 4.  RE: New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out

    Posted Jan 04, 2011 07:34 PM

    Thanks, Kim and idle-jam.

    Yes, DRS was off.  And considering that resource pools is how DRS works... but I missed it.

    Thanks again.

    Message was edited by: MB345 - oops, 1st line should read 'Thanks, Rubek and idle-jam.



  • 5.  RE: New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out

    Posted Jan 05, 2011 01:32 AM

    Glad to hear that it is working. If you need to test DRS you could use the famous cpbusy vbs script.

    Dim goal

    Dim before

    Dim x

    Dim y

    Dim i

    goal = 2181818

    Do While True

         before = Timer

         For i = 0 to goal

              x = 0.000001

              y = sin(x)

              y = y + 0.00001

         Next

         y = y + 0.01

    Loop



  • 6.  RE: New Resource Pool Task Grayed-Out

    Posted Jan 06, 2011 04:04 PM

    Thanks again, idle-jam.