Specifications

Administration Guide
204 VMware, Inc.
! Activation!policy.!The!swap!file!can!be!active!when!the!system!boots,!or!it!can!be!
activated!manually.!To!deactivate!the!swap!partition,!set!the!activation!policy!to!
Activated!manually,!and!restart!the!server.!The!swap!file!is!not!deactivated!until!
you!reboot.
Adapter Bindings
From!the!Options!pane!of!the!VMware!Management!Interface,!the!Adapter!Bindings!
tab!displays!the!World!Wide!Port!Names!bound!to!each!Fibre!Channel!HBA!in!the!
system.!You!can!view!the!persistent!binding!status!for!each!HBA.!With!persistent!
bindings,!ESX!Server!assigns!specific!target!IDs!to!specific!SCSI!devices.
!The!target!ID!
association!is!retained!from!reboot!to!reboot!unless!you!change!it.!
Persistent!bindings!are!useful!if!you!are!using!raw!disks!with!ESX!Server.!A!raw!disk!is!
directly!mapped!to!a!physical!disk!drive!on!your!SAN.!ESX!Server!directly!accesses!the!
data!on!this!disk!
as!a!raw!device!(and!not!as!a!file!on!a!VMFS!volume).!
N
OTE Because!you!are!making!changes!to!the!amount!of!swap!space!after!the!initial!
configuration,!you!must!restart!the!server!for!the!changes!take!effect.!If!the!swap!file!is!
set!to!be!activated!manually,!after!you!reboot,!the!swap!file!is!not!activated.!To!activate!
it!manually,!use!vmkfstools -w.