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monitoring capabilities. No resource control is provided with Virtualization Manager workload
definitions. However, after you monitor the workloads for a period of time to understand the
workloads’ utilization patterns, you can associate a gWLM policy with the workload that will en-
force utilization limits or allocate resources to ensure that all workloads receive the necessary re-
sources.
Figure 17-13 shows the third top-level view of the Virtualization Manager, which is the gWLM
Shared Resource Domain view. This view shows all of the gWLM shared resource domains that
have been defined on the CMS. The view provides the ability to select a shared resource domain
to get more details on the contained workloads and the status of their policies. From this screen,
actions can be selected to create a new shared resource domain, modify an existing shared resource
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Figure 17-12 Virtualization Manager Create Workload Definition