memory
advanced attributes 98
balloon driver 29
managing allocation 23, 26
overcommitment 24, 31
overhead 23
overhead, understanding 27
reclaiming unused 29
service console 23
sharing 24
sharing across virtual machines 32
virtual machines 29
virtualization 23
memory affinity, NUMA nodes 76
memory idle tax 29
memory usage 33
memory virtualization
hardware-assisted 25
software-based 25
migration recommendations 46
monitoring software 64
multicore processors 17
N
NUMA
advanced attributes 99
AMD Opteron-based systems 74
CPU affinity 76
description 71
dynamic load balancing 73
home nodes 73
home nodes and initial placement 73
IBM Enterprise X-Architecture 74
manual controls 75
memory page sharing 73
optimization algorithms 73
page migration 73
scheduling 72
supported architectures 74
transparent page sharing 73
Numa.AutoMemAffinity 99
Numa.MigImbalanceThreshold 99
Numa.PageMigEnable 99
Numa.RebalanceCoresNode 99
Numa.RebalanceCoresTotal 99
Numa.RebalanceEnable 99
Numa.RebalancePeriod 99
O
Opteron 74
overcommitted DRS clusters 58
overhead memory 23
P
page migration, NUMA 73
parent resource pool 35
partially automated DRS 48
performance, CPU-bound applications 16
performance monitoring 79
physical memory usage 27
physical processors 17
power on, single virtual machine 44
Power.CpuPolicy 22, 97
processor-specific behavior 16
Q
quarantining, hyperthreading 20
R
red DRS clusters 59
replay mode
command-line options 96
preparing for 95
reservation 10
resource allocation settings
changing 11
limit 10
reservation 10
shares 9
suggestions 10
resource consumers 8
resource management
customizing 97
defined 7
goals 8
information 11
resource pools
adding virtual machines 38
admission control 39
advantages 36
attributes 37
changing attributes of 38
creating 37, 38
grafted 53, 54
parent 35
removing virtual machines 39
root resource pool 35
siblings 35
resource providers 7
resource types 7
resxtop
batch mode 94
common statistics description 81
CPU panel 82
interactive mode 80
Index
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