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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
The Disk page shows hard disk performance information and resources allocated to
the service console. Disk bandwidth represents the amount of data that is written to
or read from the server’s physical disks.
The values under Performance indicate how much bandwidth is being used when the
service console is reading from or writing to the physical disk on the server.
The Shares value represents a relative metric for controlling disk bandwidth, where
this value is compared to the sum of all shares of all virtual machines on the same disk
as the service console and the service console itself.
For example, the service console and 2 VMFS partitions, VMFS-A and VMFS-B, are
located on the same hard disk on the ESX Server system. If the service console has
2000 shares and VMFS-A and VMFS-B each have 1000 shares, then the service console
has twice the disk bandwidth of both VMFS-A and VMFS-B.
The number of shares can be modified. Click Edit.
Change the number of shares, then click OK to save it and close the window.
Click the CPU tab to view information about service console processor usage.
Viewing System Logs and Reports
Use the System Logs and Availability Report options to view the following log files
and report through the management interface:
• VMkernel warnings and serious system alerts, the data for which is gathered
from /var/log/vmkwarning in the service console. For more information,
see Viewing VMkernel Warnings on page 247.
• VMkernel messages, the data for which is gathered from
/var/log/vmkernel in the service console. For more information, see
Viewing VMkernel Messages on page 248.