Hi
I was wondering what the best way is to go about using up the hosts free CPU resources. Is possible to set a guest VM on ESXi 5.1 to consume any available free MHz but with a minimum priority, so if any other guest VM needed CPU the they would would have priority and not be affected? My aim is to use the spare CPU for Boinc (grid computing projects like climate modelling) but I can't have it affect any real but sporadic workloads that are also on the host.
I can see the shares settings and resource types/reservation/limits settings but am unsure how to achieve my aim by using them.
Thanks