Specifications

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 Advanced–Optionsunderthisheadingcontroladvancedvirtualmachine
optionsasfollows:
 General–Containssettingsforacceleration,logging,debugging.Also
allowsyoutosetadvancedvirtualmachineconfigurationparameters.
 CPUIDMask–ContainssettingsforconfiguringCPUIDmasksfor
increasingVMotioncompatibility.
 BootOptions–Containsoptionsforsettingbootdelayandforcingthe
virtualmachinetoenterBIOSsetuponboot.
 Paravirtualization–AllowsyoutoturnonVMIparavirtualization.
 FibreChannelNPIV–ContainssettingsforconfiguringN‐PortID
Virtualizationidentifiers.
 VirtualizedMMU–Allowsyoutoconfigurewhethervirtualmachines
makeuseofhardwarepagetablevirtualizationcapabilities.
 SwapfileLocation–Allowsyoutosetthelocationinwhichthevirtual
machineswapfileisstored.
 Resources–Modifiestheresourcesharesonthemanagedhostofavirtual
machine.
 CPU–AllowsyoutospecifytheCPUresourceallocationshares,reservation,
andlimitfortheselectedvirtualmachine.
 Memory–Allowsyoutospecifythememoryresourceallocationshares,
reservation,andlimitfortheselectedvirtualmachine.
 Disk–Allowsyoutospecifythediskresourceallocationsharesandshares
valuefortheselectedvirtualmachine.
 AdvancedCPU–Allowsyoutospecifythehyperthreadingandscheduling
affinityfortheCPUrunningtheselectedvirtualmachine.
 AdvancedMemory–Allowsyoutosetlow‐leveloptionsfordistributionof
virtualmachinememorytoNUMA(nonuniformmemoryaccess)memory
nodes.Thispageappearsonlyifthevirtualmachine’shostsupportsNUMA
memoryarchitecture.
Working with Active Sessions
WhenyourVIClientisconnectedtoaVirtualCenterServer,youcanviewthelistof
usersloggedontotheserver.ThisisnotavailablewhenyourVIClientisconnectedto
anESXServerhost.