Installation guide

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VMware ESX Server Resource

Management

VMware ESX Server allows you to optimize the performance of your virtual machines

by managing a virtual machine’s resource allocations. You can control a virtual

machine’s access to:

• CPU time

• Memory space

• Network bandwidth

• Disk bandwidth

Note: You must be the root user to manage virtual machine resources.

You can manage virtual machine resource allocations through the VMware

Management Interface, from the procfs interface on the service console, and the

VMware Scripting API. The first two methods are covered in this chapter, while the

Scripting API is described in the VMware Scripting API User’s Manual at