Hello Divya K Nair
No, R-pool and resource pool are not the same in Azure. They have different functionalities and contexts:
R-pool:
- Refers to Resource Governor resource pools used in SQL Server (on-premises or Azure SQL Managed Instance) for managing resource allocation within an instance.
- Defines a subset of physical resources (CPU, memory, IO) available to workloads within the SQL Server instance.
- Enables prioritizing CPU, memory, and IO resources for different workloads within the same instance.
- Not applicable to other Azure services or resources.
Resource pool:
- A general term for a collection of resources managed together in Azure.
- Can refer to different things depending on the context:
- Azure Virtual Desktop host pools: Collections of VMs serving virtual desktops to users.
- Azure SQL Database elastic pools: Logical groupings of multiple databases sharing a fixed set of resources.
- Azure Application Service resource groups: Groups of web apps sharing resources like CPU, memory, and storage.
- Can also exist in other contexts outside of Azure, such as virtual machine environments or resource management frameworks.
- Azure SQL Database elastic pools: Logical groupings of multiple databases sharing a fixed set of resources.
- Azure Virtual Desktop host pools: Collections of VMs serving virtual desktops to users.