Installation guide

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memory than it would when running on physical machines. As a result, higher levels
of overcommitment can be supported efficiently.
The ESX Server approach does not require any cooperation from the guest operating
system. You may use the MemShareScanVM and MemShareScanTotal
configuration options to control the rate at which the system scans memory to
identify opportunities for sharing memory. For more information on these options,
see Service Console Commands on page 412.