Installation guide

C H A P T E R 1 2 VMware ESX Server Resource Management
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3. Click Edit. The Network Resource Settings page appears.
4. Enter the desired settings, then click OK. For information on these settings, see
Configuring a Virtual Machine’s Networking Settings on page 104.
You must log in as root in order to change resource management settings using
either the management interface or procfs.
Managing Network Bandwidth from the Service Console
You must log in as root in order to change resource management settings using the
procfs interface on the service console.
/proc/vmware/filters/status
This file contains network filtering status information, including a list of all available
filter classes and, for each virtual machine with attached filters, its list of attached filter
instances. Read the file with cat to see a quick report on network filtering status.
/proc/vmware/filters/xmitpush
Command file used to add a new transmit filter instance to a virtual machine. Writing
<id> <class> [<args>] to this file attaches a new instance of filter <class>
instantiated with <args> to the virtual machine identified by <id>.
/proc/vmware/filters/xmitpop
Command file used to detach a transmit filter from a virtual machine. Writing <id> to
this file detaches the last filter attached to the virtual machine identified by <id>.
/proc/vmware/filters/xmit
This directory contains a file for each active filter instance. Each file named
<class.n> corresponds to the <n>th instance of filter class <class>.