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Table Of Contents
licenses
assigning 46
viewing 47
licensing
adding license keys 48, 49
assigning 48
per-processor 48
licensing limitations, vSphere Client 45
limiting users or groups 28
Link Layer Discovery Protocol 293–295
link status, standard switches 260
Linux
customizing during cloning or deployment 113
guest operating system customization 109
requirements for customization 109
lists
exporting 16
filtering 16
live port moving, distributed port groups 44, 237
LLDP, enable 294
load balancing
datastores 368
distributed port groups 264, 279
load balancing policies, standard switches 260
lockdown mode
enabling 62
vSphere Client 62
log detail, setting the log level 30
log files
collecting 427
ESXi 427
export 424
external 424
turning off compression 428
logging
disabling for guest operating systems 65
enabling 182
Logging options, configuring 30
logging in, vSphere Client 14
logging out, vSphere Client 14
logical processors 343
logs
collecting 427
ESXi 424
vSphere Client 425
logs,system, See also troubleshooting
Long operations 30
LUNs, changing number scanned 322
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MAC address
adjust allocation parameters 296
configuration 297
configuring 296
generation 296
prefix-based allocation 296
range-based allocation 296
static 297
MAC address changes 269, 271, 279
MAC addresses, assigning 153
Mail Sender settings, configuring 29
maintenance mode
datastores 371, 372
hosts 361
hosts entering 361
ignore affinity rules 372
management access, firewalls 59
management interface, securing 59
management network 383
managing, virtual machines 185
Managing 299
manual DRS 357
maps 83
mask values 148
maximum MTU 41, 234
maximum number of ports 41, 234
memory
affinity 151
allocation 150
calculating for video displays 171
health monitoring 406
hot adding 151
managing allocation 345
virtual 90
memory affinity, NUMA nodes 380
memory compression cache
disabling 348
enabling 348
set size 349
migrate secondary, Fault Tolerance 397
migrating
powered-off virtual machines 126
powered-on virtual machines 124
suspended virtual machines 126
virtual machine disks 125
virtual machines 123
virtual machines with Storage vMotion 125
with vMotion 124
migration, about 123
miscellaneous policies, distributed port
groups 279
modifying cluster settings 384
monitoring
Storage I/O Control 350
vSphere Client 403
MTU 250
multipathing plug-ins, path claiming 333
multipathing state 334
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client
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