Share pools
The share policy for multidimensional resource plans uses two types of share pools: public and private.
- Public share pool
- All resources available to the resource plan after all ownerships are assigned belong to the public share pool. All consumers have access to this share pool. A consumer that is configured with a share ratio of 0 does not participate in the share pool.
- Private share pool
- Private share pools are only accessible by consumers under one
parent. There are two sources for a private share pool:
- In a configuration where a parent consumer owns more resources than its children, some unassigned resources remain after all its children satisfy their ownership. These unassigned resources form a private share pool of this parent that its children can share.
- Any child consumer that has free resources in its ownership (and in a private share pool if it has one) and is configured to lend out resources. The lent out resources are added to the private share pool of the parent consumer. Lent out resources that reach the root consumer are considered part of the public share pool.
Public and private share pools are scheduled separately. Each consumer uses the closest private share pools in order of proximity, followed by private share pools that are further, and finally, public share pools.