Specifications

Basic System Administration
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Disk Resources
TheDiskResourcespanelletsyouallocatehostdiskI/Obandwidthtothevirtualhard
disksofthisvirtualmachine.DiskI/Oisahost‐centricresourceandcannotbepooled
acrossacluster.However,CPUandmemoryresourcesaremuchmorelikelyto
constrainvirtualmachineperformancethandiskresources.
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To change disk settings
1ClicktheResourcestab.
2 SelectDiskintheSettingslist.
Onthisdialogbox,youcanadjustthehostdiskallocationforthisvirtualmachine.
3IntheResourceAllocationpanel,selectthevirtualharddiskfromthelist.
4ClickintheSharesfield.Usethedrop‐downmenutochange
thevaluetoallocate
anumberofsharesofitsdiskbandwidthtothevirtualmachine.
Sharesisavaluethatrepresentstherelativemetricforcontrollingdiskbandwidth
toallvirtualmachines.The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.
5ClickOKtosaveyourchanges.
Adding New Hardware
YoucanaddvirtualhardwaretoavirtualmachineusingtheAddHardwarewizard.
ThevirtualhardwarethatyouaddappearsinthehardwarelistdisplayedintheVirtual
MachinePropertieswizard.Theselectedguestoperatingsystemdeterminesthe
devicesthatareavailabletobeaddedtoagivenvirtualmachine.
To start the wizard
1FromtheVirtualCenterclient,clickInventoryinthenavigationbar.Expandthe
inventoryasneeded,andclicktheappropriatevirtualmachine.
2TodisplaytheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogbox,clicktheEditSettingslink
intheCommandspanel.
3ClicktheHardwaretab.
4ClickAddtostarttheAddHardwarewizard.
Followthe
stepsinthefollowingsectionstoaddvarioustypesofvirtualhardware
toyourvirtualmachine.