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Table Of Contents
distributed port groups 264, 279
port group 262
temperature, monitoring 406
templates
changing names 105
cloning 101, 102
converting to virtual machines 107
converting virtual machines to 100
creating 100, 101
deleting 106
deploy virtual machines 103
OVF 134
removing from inventory 106
renaming 105
returning to inventory 107
returning to a host 187
unregistering 106
test failover, Fault Tolerance 397
test restart secondary, Fault Tolerance 398
thick provisioned disks 101, 102
thin disks, creating 336
thin provisioned disks 101, 102
thin provisioning 336
Thin Provisioning 93
threshold, Storage I/O Control 352
time zones 56
timeout, ESXi Shell 62
Timeout, interval 30
timeout interval, setting 28
Timeout settings, configuring 30
traffic shaping
distributed port groups 275, 279
port groups 274
traffic shaping policies
distributed ports 276
uplink ports 276
traps, SNMP 417, 418
triggered alarms, acknowledging 421
triggers, event-based 414
troubleshooting
debugging and statistics 183
extensions 21
log files 424, 427
plug-ins 21
virtual machine software installation 183
TSO 250
turning off, Fault Tolerance 396
U
updated information 11
upgrading
distributed switch 235
virtual machine hardware 139
VMware Tools 142
vSphere distributed switch 235
uplink adapters
adding 230
adding to a vSphere distributed switch 240
duplex 229
managing 240
removing 240
speed 229
uplink assignments 234
uplink port groups, VLAN policies 268
uplink ports
traffic shaping policies 276
VLAN policies 267, 268
USB passthrough
arbitrator for 173
avoiding data loss 177
configuring from a client computer to a
VM 177
configuring from a host to a virtual
machine 173
controllers for 173, 177
devices, See also USB devices
USB controllers
adding to virtual machine 174
removing from virtual machine 175
USB devices
adding from client computer to VM in the
vSphere Client 179
adding host device to virtual machine 176
adding to client computers 178
behavior with hot add operations 177
removing from virtual machine 177
removing remote client device from VM 179
supported devices for Mac OS X guest 177
use cases, Fault Tolerance 391
user management, ESXi 69
users
adding to ESXi 70
authentication 69
direct access 69
exporting a user list 71
modifying on hosts 70
removing 72
removing from hosts 71
searching 78
security 69
viewing user list 71
V
validation
enabling 28
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client
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