Installation guide

CHAPTER 3 Using the VMware Management Interface to Manage Your Virtual Machines
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Note: The period of time these statistics cover can be modified. See
Configuring the Statistics Period for the VMware Management Interface on
page 89.
• How long the virtual machine has been running.
• VMware Tools status; whether VMware Tools is installed and running.
• The average percentage of heartbeats received by a virtual machine during the
previous minute. The heartbeats are sent by the VMware guest operating system
service to the virtual machine from its guest operating system; the percentage is
relative to the number of heartbeats the virtual machine expects to receive for
the minute before the page was last updated. Heavily loaded guest operating
systems may not send 100% of the expected heartbeats, even though the
system is otherwise operating normally; in general, only when the heartbeat
percentage drops to zero should the virtual machine or guest operating system
be considered abnormal.
Note: If VMware Tools is not installed or is not running, the guest operating
system does not send any heartbeats to its virtual machine and Not Available
appears here.
• The IP address of the virtual machine.
• Links to edit the virtual machine’s hardware and standard configuration options.
Click Hardware to edit the virtual machine’s hardware. The Hardware page
appears. Click Options to edit the virtual machine’s standard configuration
options. The Options page appears. You can make changes to the virtual
machine’s configuration in these places. To change most options, the virtual
machine must be powered off.
• The guest operating system installed in the virtual machine.
• The number of virtual processors in the virtual machine.
• The amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine.
• The path to the virtual machine’s configuration file on the ESX Server system.
Activities you can perform when viewing a virtual machine’s details include:
• Editing a Virtual Machine’s Configuration on page 108
• Configuring a Virtual Machine’s CPU Usage on page 108
• Configuring a Virtual Machine’s Memory Usage on page 110
• Configuring a Virtual Machine’s Disk Usage on page 113
• Configuring a Virtual Machine’s Networking Settings on page 114