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Administering Memory Resources 33
Understanding Memory Overhead 33
How ESXi Hosts Allocate Memory 35
Memory Reclamation 36
Using Swap Files 37
Sharing Memory Across Virtual Machines 42
Memory Compression 42
Measuring and Differentiating Types of Memory Usage 43
Memory Reliability 45
About System Swap 45
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Persistent Memory 47
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Configuring Virtual Graphics 49
View GPU Statistics 49
Add an NVIDIA GRID vGPU to a Virtual Machine 50
Configuring Host Graphics 50
Configuring Graphics Devices 51
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Managing Storage I/O Resources 52
About Virtual Machine Storage Policies 53
About I/O Filters 53
Storage I/O Control Requirements 54
Storage I/O Control Resource Shares and Limits 54
Set Storage I/O Control Resource Shares and Limits 55
Enable Storage I/O Control 56
Set Storage I/O Control Threshold Value 56
Storage DRS Integration with Storage Profiles 58
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Managing Resource Pools 59
Why Use Resource Pools? 60
Create a Resource Pool 63
Edit a Resource Pool 64
Add a Virtual Machine to a Resource Pool 64
Remove a Virtual Machine from a Resource Pool 65
Remove a Resource Pool 66
Resource Pool Admission Control 66
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Creating a DRS Cluster 69
Admission Control and Initial Placement 69
Virtual Machine Migration 71
DRS Cluster Requirements 73
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