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vSphere Virtual Machine Management

You're reading from   vSphere Virtual Machine Management This tutorial will help VMware administrators fine-tune and expand their expertise with vSphere. From creating and configuring virtual machines to optimizing performance, it's all here in a crystal clear series of chapters.

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Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172185
Length 326 pages
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Rebecca Fitzhugh Rebecca Fitzhugh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Virtual Machine Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard 3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine 4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings 5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps 6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation 7. Monitoring Virtual Machines 8. Migrating Virtual Machines 9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability 10. Virtual Machine Design Index

vApp options


Once the vApp has been created, there are many settings than can be edited as required. To edit the vApp's configuration, right-click on the vApp in the vCenter Server inventory and select Edit settings. The CPU resources and Memory resources sections originally allocated can be adjusted as needed, as shown in the following screenshot:

The CPU- and memory-related options can be adjusted at any time after creation. The resource options displayed in the preceding screenshot are the same options that are available when using a resource pool. A vApp is a resource pool with additional features.

IP addressing policies

A setting that everyone should be familiar with is the IP allocation policy option. This modifies how IP addresses can be allocated to the virtual machines for the vApp if IP pools are in use. The following screenshot displays that the vApp is using the Static - Manual option; there are however multiple options to choose from.

The following options are available for the...

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