Duncan’s article on vCloud Allocation models states that: a provider vDC can be a VMware vSphere Cluster or a Resource Pool … Although vCloud Director offers the ability to map Provider vDCs to Clusters or Resource Pool, it might be better to choose for the less complex solution. This article zooms in on the compute [...]

Many organizations have the bad habit to use resource pools to create a folder structure in the host and cluster view of vCenter. Virtual machines are being placed inside a resource pool to show some kind of relation or sorting order like operating system or types of application. This is not reason why VMware invented [...]

Article about workaround by setting memory reservation on dedicated resource pool for VM to avoid large HA slot sizing and lower consolidation ratio.