A scheduler policy represents a particular grouping of virtual schedulers that are defined in specific scheduler tiers. The tiers and internal parent associations between the schedulers establish the hierarchy among the virtual schedulers. A scheduler policy can be applied to either a multiservice site or to a Service Access Point (SAP). When the policy is applied to a site or SAP, the schedulers in the policy are instantiated on the object and are available for use by child queues directly or indirectly associated with the object.