Rank consumers in order of priority

You must have created at least one consumer before you can set any priorities (rank). You must either be a cluster administrator or a consumer administrator for this branch to modify a consumer rank.

If you have critical workload to run, you can ensure resources are available by assigning a high rank to a consumer. Note that if all consumers have a high ranking, any advantage one may have over another is nullified. Be selective in assigning a high consumer rank to a consumer.

Consumer rank and the resource group or groups assigned to that consumer work in collaboration. Even if you set a consumer’s rank high, the resource group must have the resources available. You can also enable borrowing from other consumers to make sure any unowned resources are assigned to your high ranking consumer.

  1. Click Consumers > Consumers & Plans, and then Resource Plan.
  2. Select Time Intervals and Settings > Show Advanced Settings.
  3. Under ConsumerRank, rank as many consumers as you want.

    Specify any positive whole number, where 1 is the highest priority. Priority settings are relative to one another within the resource group.

    If you leave the priority blank, that consumer has no priority over any other consumer (it does not form part of any consumer ordering/sequencing).

  4. When finished assigning priority settings, click Apply to save your changes.
  5. From the drop down list of resource groups, switch resource groups until you have set consumer priorities for all resource groups within the consumer tree.

You may want to enable and specify details for lending and borrowing for this leaf consumer and its siblings, taking into consideration what priority you have set them.

For example, if you have set a low priority for a consumer, you may wish to enable lending with no limits for it, and then enable borrowing from this consumer in the borrowing details of all other consumers. Doing this maximizes the effectiveness of your resource distribution, lending and borrowing policies, and priority settings. In this example, low priority slots are dynamically lent out to higher priority consumers as required.