6.0

Table Of Contents
searching inventory, permissions 17
security, permissions 72
security policies, distributed ports 272
security policy
distributed port groups 271, 279
policy exceptions 269
virtual switches 269
selecting datastores 88
serial port, redirecting the direct console using
the vSphere Client 23
serial ports
adding 156
adding Firewall rule set 155
changing 157
conditions for network connections 155
conditions for physical connections 154
connection types 154
server configuration for hyperthreading 343
service startup
changing policy 60
setting options 60
service startup options, setting 60
services, syslogd 24, 66, 426
sessions
viewing 21
vSphere Client, terminating 21
set host to evaluation mode 46
settings, vCenter Server 23, 26
shares, Storage I/O Control 349
shares and limits, Storage I/O Control 350
sharing, disks 94
shutdown, settings for virtual machines 180
shutdown, settings, for virtual machines 185
siblings 352
simple search 17
Single Root I/O Virtualization 254
SMASH 406
SMTP
configuring 416
notification 29
server 29
snapshots
about 187
behavior 187
child 187
consolidating 194
Delete all option 193
Delete option 193
deleting 193
delta disks 187
exclude virtual disks from 190
GO to command 192
hierarchy 187
memory 189
parent 187
quiescing 190
quiescing virtual machine files 189
restoring 191, 192
revert to parent 192
reverting to 191
taking 189, 190
virtual machine activity 189
virtual machines with dynamic disks 190
SNMP
community string 29
configuring 423
receiver URL 29
settings 29
traps 29
SNMP traps 417, 418
software iSCSI, networking 310
software FCoE
and VMkernel 303
activating adapters 304
software iSCSI initiator, enabling 308
software iSCSI adapter
configuring 308
disabling 309
software iSCSI initiators, setting up discovery
addresses 316
solutions,viewing 208, 422
specify failover hosts 387
SR-IOV
enable 254, 255
host profile 254, 255
SSL certificate 80
standard switch 227
standard switches
average bandwidth 274
beacon probing 260
burst size 274
failover 260
forged transmits 269
link status 260
load balancing policies 260
MAC address changes 269
NIC teaming 260
peak bandwidth 274
port configuration 229
promiscuous mode 269
security policy 269
traffic shaping policies 274
standby adapters 230
standby mode 356, 362, 363
standby settings, for virtual machines 180
standby uplinks 262, 265
starting, vSphere Client 14
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client
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