what is oversubscription
What is oversubscription and how does it affect my environment? Answer: Subscription is defined as the total number of virtual processors or amount of memory allocated to all powered-on virtual machines in a compute pool. Oversubscription is when the subscribed resources exceed those purchased. Note: Oversubscription is not applicable to instance-based compute pools. Processor oversubscription. Processor oversubscription is defined as the total number of virtual processors assigned to all powered on virtual machines, multiplied by the host process core speed. If this number is greater than the GHz purchased, the compute pool is said to be oversubscribed.