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<chapter id="allocators">
  <title>Allocators</title>
  <para>&PRODUCT; enables administrators to write custom allocators that will choose the Host to place a new guest and the storage host from which to allocate guest virtual disk images.</para>
  <para>These are following categories of allocators currently supported:</para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>HostAllocators - Allows you to create custom rules to determine which physical host to allocate the guest virtual machines on. </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>StoragePoolAllocators - Allows you to create custom rules to determine which storage pool to allocate the guest virtual machines on. </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  
</chapter>