Specifications

Basic System Administration
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3 ChooseHyperthreadingSharingModefromthedrop‐downmenu.Theoptions
are:
 Any–(default)ThevirtualCPUsofthisvirtualmachinecanfreelysharecores
withothervirtualCPUsofthisorothervirtualmachines.
 None–ThevirtualCPUsofthisvirtualmachinehaveexclusiveuseofa
processorcorewhenevertheyarescheduledtoit.Theotherhyperthreadof
thecoreishaltedwhilethisvirtualmachineisusingthecore.
 Internal–Onavirtualmachinewithexactlytwovirtualprocessors,thetwo
virtualprocessorsareallowedtoshareonephysicalcore(atthediscretionof
theESXServerscheduler),butthisvirtualmachineneversharesacorewith
anyothervirtualmachine.Ifthisvirtualmachinehasanyothernumber
of
processorsotherthantwo,thissettingisthesameastheNonesetting.
4 ChoosetoscheduleaffinitybyselectingtheRunonprocessor(s)radiobutton.
Thecheckboxesfortheindividualprocessorsrepresentphysicalcoresif
hyperthreadingisdisabledorlogicalcores(twoperphysicalcore)if
hyperthreadingis
enabled.Checkingalltheboxesisthesameasnotapplyingany
affinity.Youmustprovideatleastasmanyprocessoraffinitiesasthenumberof
virtualCPUsinthevirtualmachine.
5ClickOKtosaveyourchanges.
TheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogboxcloses.
Memory Resources
TheMemoryResourcespanelletsyouallocatememoryresourcesforavirtualmachine
andspecifyreservations,limits,andshares.Youcaneditsomeofthesameinformation
ontheResourcePoolstabofthemainVIClientwindow,whichyoumightdotoedit
resourcesettingsatthesametimeas
othervirtualmachinesettings.
To change memory settings
1ClicktheResourcestab.
2 SelectMemoryintheSettingslist.
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OTEThisoptionisnotallowedwhenthevirtualmachineresidesonaDRS
cluster,anditsvaluesareclearedwhenavirtualmachineismigratedtoanewhost.
Thevalueoftheoptionisonlyintuningtheperformanceofaprecisesetofvirtual
machinesonthesame
host.