Connecting to resource pools

To connect to a VMware resource pool, you must add the following property under the [vmware] section in the OpenStack Nova Compute service configuration file related to VMware, and restart the related OpenStack Nova Compute service:

resource_pool = <cluster_name>:<resource_pool_name>

where <cluster_name> is the name of the VMware cluster where the resource pool is defined. When you specify a cluster name and a resource pool name, the resource pool under the cluster is the target to deploy the virtual machines.

If you have multiple resource pools in the same cluster, you can connect to a different resource pool for deployment by creating a new host aggregate with a procedure similar to Connecting to different datastores in the same cluster and specifying different resource pools with the resource_pool variable in the new OpenStack Nova Compute service configuration file related to VMware.