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5 (Optional) Select how to assign the MAC address from the drop-down menu.
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Select Automatic to automatically assign a MAC address.
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Select Manual to manually enter the MAC address that you want.
6 From the drop-down menu next to the New Network label, select the standard or distributed port
group to connect to.
The menu lists all standard and distributed port groups that are available for virtual machine use on the
host.
If you want to provision bandwidth to the network adapter from a reserved quota by using vSphere
Network I/O Control version 3, select a port group that is associated with the network resource pool
that provides the quota.
If the virtual machine runs on a Cisco UCS server, the drop-down menu also shows the port profiles
that are available on the Cisco UCS Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) distributed switch.
7 If the network adapter is connected to a distributed port group of a distributed switch that has vSphere
Network I/O Control version 3 enabled, allocate bandwidth to the adapter.
NOTE You cannot allocate bandwidth to SR-IOV passthrough network adapters.
a From the Shares drop-down menu, set the relative priority of the traffic from this virtual machine
as shares from the capacity of the connected physical adapter.
b In the Reservation text box, reserve a minimum bandwidth that must be available to the VM
network adapter when the virtual machine is powered on.
c In the Limit text box, set a limit on the bandwidth that the VM network adapter can consume.
8 If the virtual machine is connected to a port profile on a Cisco UCS Virtual Machine Fabric Extender
(VM-FEX) distributed switch, to enable vSphere DirectPath I/O with vMotion, under DirectPath I/O
click Enable.
9 Click OK.
Parallel and Serial Port Configuration
Parallel and serial ports are interfaces for connecting peripherals to the virtual machine. The virtual serial
port can connect to a physical serial port or to a file on the host computer. You can also use it to establish a
direct connection between two virtual machines or a connection between a virtual machine and an
application on the host computer. You can add parallel and serial ports and change the serial port
configuration.
Using Serial Ports with vSphere Virtual Machines
You can set up virtual serial port connections for vSphere virtual machines in several ways. The connection
method that you select depends on the task that you need to accomplish.
You can set up virtual serial ports to send data in the following ways.
Physical serial port on
the host
Sets the virtual machine to use a physical serial port on the host computer.
This method lets you use an external modem or a hand-held device in a
virtual machine.
Output to file
Sends output from the virtual serial port to a file on the host computer. This
method lets you capture the data that a program running in the virtual
machine sends to the virtual serial port.
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