Specifications

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Chapter 12 VMware ESX Server Resource Management
To edit configurations parameters in the management interface
1Click!the!arrow!to!the!right!of!the!terminal!icon!and!select!Configure!Options!in!
the!Virtual!Machine!menu.
2In!the!Options!pane,!in!the!Verbose!Options!section,!click!here.
3Click!Add!to!add!a!new!configuration!parameter!or!click!in!the!text!field!to!edit!an!
existing!parameter.
4Click!OK.
If!you!edit!a!virtual!machine’s!configuration!file!by!hand,!use!the!following!formats!to!
control!disk!bandwidth!allocation!for!the!virtual!machine:
scsi0:1.name = <fsname>:<diskname>.vmdk
This!is!the!standard!format!for!specifying!the!VMFS!file!underlying!a!virtual!disk:
sched.scsi0:1.shares = n
This!configuration! option!specifies!the!initial!disk!bandwidth!share!allocation!for!a!
virtual!machine!for!the!disk!scsi0:1!to!be!n!shares.!The!valid!range!of!numerical!
values!for!n!is!1!to!100000.!You!can!also!use!the!special!values!low,!normal,!and!high.!
These!values!are!converted!
into!numbers,!through!the!configuration!options!
DiskSharesLow,!DiskSharesNormal!and!DiskSharesHigh,!described!in!the!next!
section.!If!the!number!of!shares!for!a!disk!is!not!specified,!the!assigned!allocation!is!
normal,!with!a!default!value!of!1000!shares.!
Configuration File Examples
scsi0.virtualdev = vmxbuslogic
scsi0:1.present = TRUE
scsi0:1.name = vmhba0:2:0:5:rh6.2.vmdk
scsi0:1.mode = persistent
sched.scsi0:1.shares = high
scsi0:2.present = TRUE
scsi0:2.name = scratchfs:scratch1.vmdk
sched.scsi0:2.shares = 800
In!the!example!above,!the!first!four!lines!in!the!first!group!and!the!first!two!lines!in!the!
second!group!are!present!in!the!configuration!file!before!you!make!your!changes.!The!
final!line!in!each!group!is!the!added!line!to!specify!the!disk!bandwidth!allocation.!
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OTE It!is!possible!for!a!configuration!file!to!have!multiple!lines!specifying!the!number!of!
shares.!If!this!happens,!the!last!value!specified!is!used.