{"id":1123,"date":"2013-06-14T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2013-06-14T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:04:29","slug":"vmware-cannot-create-resource-pool-the-option-is-greyed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2013\/06\/14\/vmware-cannot-create-resource-pool-the-option-is-greyed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware: Cannot create Resource Pool, the option is greyed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK this is a now brainer but still get asked sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>In the vCenter you right click on Cluster and New Resource Pool option is grey out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1124\" alt=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/19-300x278.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/19-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/19.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To create resource pool you need to have\u00a0Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) enabled on the Cluster.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Right Click on the Cluster and select\u00a0<strong>Edit Settings&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tick\u00a0<strong>Turn On vSphere DRS<\/strong> click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1125\" alt=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/22-300x247.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/22-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/22.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now you can create Resource Pools for this Cluster<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1126\" alt=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/32.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/32.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2013\/06\/32-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK this is a now brainer but still get asked sometimes. In the vCenter you right click on Cluster and New Resource Pool option is grey out. To create resource pool you need to have\u00a0Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) enabled on the Cluster. Right Click on the Cluster and select\u00a0Edit Settings&#8230; Tick\u00a0Turn On vSphere DRS click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[452,9,11],"tags":[464,490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}