Specifications

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Chapter 3 Using the VMware Management Interface
Resource!information!displayed!includes:
! Minimum!–!Minimum!amount!of!memory!that!must!be!available!to!power!on!the!
virtual!machine.
! Maximum!–!Amount!of!memory!allocated!to!the!virtual!machine!when!it!was!
configured.!
! Shares!–!A!relative!metric!for!allocating!memory!to!all!virtual!machines.!Symbolic!
values!low,!normal,!and!high!are!compared!to!the!sum!of!all!shares!of!all!virtual!
machines!on!the!server!and!the!service!console.!Share!allocation!symbolic!values!
can!be!used!to!configure!their!conversion!into!numeric
!values.
For!more!information!on!share!values,!refer!to!the!resource!management!man!
pages:!cpu,!diskbw,!and!mem.!
! Memory!Affinity!–!If!displayed,!the!NUMA!nodes!on!the!ESX!Server!system!to!
which!the!virtual!machine!can!be!bound,!when!the!ESX!Server!system!a!NUMA!
system.!See!“Using!Your!NUMA!System”!on!page 358.
Modifying Memory Values
To!modify!memory!values,!click!Edit.!See!“Managing!Memory!Resources!from!the!
Management!Interface”!on!page 351.
Configuring a Virtual Machine’s Disk Usage
To!review!and!configure!the!virtual!machine’s!disk!settings,!click!the!Disk!tab.!
Figure 3-5. Disk Tab
The!Disk!tab!shows!virtual!disk!performance!information!and!resources!allocated!to!
the!virtual!disk.!Disk!bandwidth!represents!the!amount!of!data!that!is!written!to!or!read!
from!the!server’s!physical!disks.