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How to throttle a VMs host CPU utilization in VMware

Hi, I am tight on hosts right now as I await hardware to arrive for a downed host. But I am needing to spin up a new VM for some colleagues. I have a host that has more than enough resources, but it has some important VMs already on it. And because of the nature of what this new VM will be doing, it tends to try to use all of the host CPU resources available to it.

I know there is a way to instruct VMware at the VM level to force the VM to never use more than some percentage of the hosts CPU resources.

What is the best way to configure this VM to never use more than 50% of the the host's entire CPU resources? And procedural, how do I configure this? IE where are these settings located?

Thanks a lot :-)

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Ok, thanks for the info, I will for now limit this VM to two VCPU's. Since this is only temporary, I am not going to go through the bother of setting up resource pools and shares. Though I will investigate it further when I have time and a few spare non critical hosts to test on.

Thanks