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Updated Information

This vSphere Resource Management Guide is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.

This table provides the update history of the vSphere Resource Management Guide.

Revision Description

EN-000107-02 Included a point in “Multicore Processors,” on page 19 section.

EN-000107-01 Removed references to CPU.MachineClearThreshold since this advanced CPU attribute is not available

through the vSphere Client.

EN-000107-00 Initial release.

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Contents 3
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Updated Information 5
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About This Book 7
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Getting Started with Resource 9
Management 1 9
Resource Consumers 10
Goals of Resource Management 10
Resource Allocation Shares 11
Resource Allocation Limit 12
CPU Section 13
Memory Section 14
Admission Control 16
Managing CPU Resources 2 17
Administering CPU Resources 18
View Processor Information 19
Specifying CPU Configuration 19
Multicore Processors 19
Hyperthreading 20
Enable Hyperthreading 21
Quarantining 22
Using CPU Affinity 23
CPU Power Management 24
Managing Memory Resources 3 25
Memory Overcommitment 26
Memory Sharing 26
Performance Considerations 27
Understanding Memory Overhead 29
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Memory Reclamation 31
Using Swap Files 32
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Managing Resource Pools 4 37
Why Use Resource Pools? 38
Create Resource Pools 39
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Creating a DRS Cluster 5 45
Group Power On 46
Virtual Machine Migration 47
DRS Migration Threshold 48
Migration Recommendations 48
DRS Cluster Prerequisites 49
Create a DRS Cluster 50
Disable DRS 51
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Using DRS Clusters to Manage 53
Resources 6 53
Edit DRS Rules 54
Disable DRS Rules 54
Delete DRS Rules 54
Adding Hosts to a Cluster 55
Remove Hosts from a Cluster 56
Using Maintenance Mode 57
Using Standby Mode 57
DRS Cluster Validity 58
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Overcommitted DRS Clusters 60
Invalid DRS Clusters 61
Managing Power Resources 62
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Automation Level 65
VMware DPM Threshold 65
Host-Level Overrides 65
Monitoring VMware DPM 66
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CPU Utilization 68
Memory Utilization 68
Using the DRS Tab 69
DRS Faults Page 70
DRS History Page 71
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What is NUMA? 73
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IBM Enterprise X-Architecture 76
Specifying NUMA Controls 77
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Using the esxtop Utility 81
Using the resxtop Utility 81
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Common Statistics Description 83
CPU Panel 84
Memory Panel 86
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Storage Adapter Panel 89
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Storage Device Panel 91
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Virtual Machine Storage Panel 93
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Network Panel 95
Using Batch Mode 96
Using Replay Mode 97
Procedure 98
Advanced Attributes B 99
Advanced Memory Attributes 100
Advanced NUMA Attributes 101
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