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3Fromthedrop‐downmenuintheResourceallocationpanel,choosearelative
metricforallocatingmemorytoallvirtualmachines.
SymbolicvaluesLow,Normal,High,andCustomarecomparedtothesumofall
sharesofallvirtualmachinesontheserverand,onanESXServer3
host,theservice
console.Shareallocationsymbolicvaluescanbeusedtoconfiguretheirconversion
intonumericvalues.
4IntheResourceallocationpanel,usetheslidertoselecttheamountofreserved
memoryandthememorylimit,orusetheupanddownarrowstoenterthe
numberofMBsallocated.
Formoreinformationonmemoryvalues,seethememmanpage.
5ClickOKtosaveyourchanges.
TheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogboxcloses.
Advanced Memory Resources
TheAdvancedMemoryResourcespageletsyousetlow‐leveloptionsthatinvolve
distributionofvirtualmachinememorytoNUMAmemorynodes.
Thispageisdisplayedonlyif
thehostutilizestheNUMAmemoryarchitecture.
Becauseaffinitysettingsaremeaningfulonlywhenusedtotweaktheperformanceofa
specificsetofvirtualmachinesononehost,thispagealsoisnotdisplayedwhenthe
virtualmachineresidesonaDRScluster.Theoptionvaluesareclearedwhen
thevirtual
machineismovedtoanewhost.
NUMAmemorynodeaffinityenablesfine‐grainedcontroloverhowvirtualmachine
memoryisdistributedtohostphysicalmemory.Checkingalltheboxesisthesameas
applyingnoaffinity.
ConsulttheResourceManagementGuidefordetailsaboutNUMAandadvanced
memoryresources.
To associate memory allocations with a NUMA node
1 SelecttheResourcestab,andchooseMemory.
2IntheNUMAMemoryAffinitypanel,setmemoryaffinity.
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OTESpecifynodestobeusedforfuturememoryallocationsonlyifyouhavealso
specifiedCPUaffinity.Ifyoumakemanualchangesonlytothememoryaffinity
settings,automaticNUMArebalancingdoesnotworkproperly.