About the Round Robin policy

The Round Robin policy chooses a resource that satisfies all the service-specific quota requirements from a pool in a round-robin manner. In Unify, each resource is assigned an incremental identifier (ID), when it is added through the Unify control panel.

This policy chooses a resource randomly for the first time, and then it selects the next resource in the increasing order of the resource's identifier (ID). Once the resource with the highest ID has been used for provisioning, the next resource that will be selected will be the one with the lowest ID, and so on.

Points to remember:

Example: The service provider has access to four resources with resource IDs as 1, 2, 3, and 4. If the service provider now tries to provision a service to an organization, and all the four resources satisfy all the service-specific quota requirements, the Round Robin policy will choose any resource randomly for the first service provision. Let us assume that it selects the resource with ID 2. For the consecutive service provisions, the policy selects the resources with incremental IDs, that is, 3, 4, 1, 2, and so on.