Hi,

A common question that i get is how to apply a Qos at the VM level if and when its needed, this can come because of many reasons

• you are a service provider and you want to cap your clients
  
• you are a customer and you want to prevent a VM going wild “the noisy Neighbor”
  

• you have a snapshot volume/VM where you don’t want to allocate the same amount of storage resources to it as you allocate for your “production” VM.
  

Luckily VMware have made a lot of investment in this front in both vSphere 5.5 and 6.0,

in vSphere 5.5, the default scheduler has changed to mClock scheduler which you can read about more here:

http://cormachogan.com/2014/09/16/new-mclock-io-scheduler-in-vsphere-5-5-some-details/

and in vSphere 6.0, it added a “reservation” per VM, the “reservation” part still need to be configured in the VM .vmx file.

i made a video showing all of this, enjoy and i hope you’ll use this feature, it’s really cool!