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Mastering VMware vSphere™ 4
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Mastering VMware vSphere™ 4

by Scott Lowe
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
22h 16m
English
Sybex
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A.10. Chapter 10: Managing Resource Allocation

Manage virtual machine memory and CPU allocation.

In a VMware vSphere environment, the ESX/ESXi hosts control virtual machine access to physical resources like RAM and CPU. To effectively manage and scale VMware vSphere, administrators must understand how to allocate memory and CPU resources to virtual machines, including how to use reservations, limits, and shares. Reservations provide guarantees to resources, limits provide a cap on resource usage, and shares help adjust the allocation of resources in a constrained environment.

Master It

To guarantee certain levels of performance, your IT director believes that all virtual machines must be configured with at least 2GB of RAM. However, you know ...

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