VMware vSphere vCenter Server 4.0 User Manual

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Mem.ShareScanTime 34, 100
memory

advanced attributes 100
balloon driver 31
managing allocation 25, 28
overcommitment 26, 33
overhead 25
overhead, understanding 29
reclaiming unused 31
service console 25
sharing 26
sharing across virtual machines 34
virtual machines 31
virtualization 25

memory affinity, NUMA nodes 78
memory idle tax 31
memory usage 35
memory virtualization

hardware-assisted 27
software-based 27

migration recommendations 48
monitoring software 66
multicore processors 19

N

NUMA

advanced attributes 101
AMD Opteron-based systems 76
CPU affinity 78
description 73
dynamic load balancing 75
home nodes 75
home nodes and initial placement 75
IBM Enterprise X-Architecture 76
manual controls 77
memory page sharing 75
optimization algorithms 75
page migration 75
scheduling 74
supported architectures 76
transparent page sharing 75

Numa.AutoMemAffinity 101
Numa.MigImbalanceThreshold 101
Numa.PageMigEnable 101
Numa.RebalanceCoresNode 101
Numa.RebalanceCoresTotal 101
Numa.RebalanceEnable 101
Numa.RebalancePeriod 101

O

Opteron 76
overcommitted DRS clusters 60

overhead memory 25

P

page migration, NUMA 75
parent resource pool 37
partially automated DRS 50
performance, CPU-bound applications 18
performance monitoring 81
physical memory usage 29
physical processors 19
power on, single virtual machine 46
Power.CpuPolicy 24, 99
processor-specific behavior 18

Q

quarantining, hyperthreading 22

R

red DRS clusters 61
replay mode

command-line options 98
preparing for 97

reservation 11
resource allocation settings

changing 12
limit 12
reservation 11
shares 11
suggestions 12

resource consumers 10
resource management

customizing 99
defined 9
goals 10
information 13

resource pools

adding virtual machines 40
admission control 41
advantages 38
attributes 39
changing attributes of 40
creating 39, 40
grafted 55
parent 37
removing virtual machines 41
root resource pool 37
siblings 37

resource providers 9
resource types 9
resxtop

batch mode 96
common statistics description 83
CPU panel 84

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