Defining SQL Azure Resource Pools

The following properties are applicable to a SQL Azure Resource Pool object.

Tab	Property	Description	Additional Information
General	Minimum CPU Percentage	Specifies the guaranteed average CPU bandwidth for all requests in the resource pool when there is CPU contention	The allowed value range is 0 to 100.
	Maximum CPU Percentage	Specifies the maximum average CPU bandwidth for all requests in the resource pool when there is CPU contention	The allowed value range is 0 to 100.
	Hard Cap CPU Percentage	Specifies the hard maximum average CPU bandwidth for all requests in the resource pool	The CPU capacity available above this value is not used.
	Affinity	Specifies the schedulers to which the resource pool is attached	Scheduler: Maps the resource pool to the SQL Server schedules identified by the given IDs. NUMANode: Maps the resource pool to the SQL Server schedulers that map to the physical CPUs that correspond to the given NUMA node or range of nodes
	Affinity Value	Specifies the range of specific schedulers that you want to attach the resource pool to
	Minimum Memory Percentage	Specifies the guaranteed minimum amount of memory for all requests in the resource pool
	Maximum Memory Percentage	Specifies the maximum percentage of total memory that can be used by requests in the resource pool
	Minimum IOPS Per Volume	Specifies the minimum physical IO operations per second (IOPS) per disk volume for a resource pool
	Maximum IOPS Per Volume	Specifies the maximum physical IO operations per second (IOPS) per disk volume for a resource pool

This object is supported only for Azure SQL Managed Instance.