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Managing Disk Bandwidth from the Management Interface

To change disk bandwidth settings from the management interface, you must be

logged in as root and the virtual machine must be running. Click Monitor Resources

on the Overview page, then click Edit Resources under the name of the virtual

machine you want to change. You can edit both the number of shares for the virtual

machine you are changing and the total number of shares used on the ESX Server

computer.

Enter the desired settings, then click Save Changes.

Configuration File Options

If you edit a virtual machine’s configuration file by hand, use the following formats to

control disk bandwidth allocation for the virtual machine. You may edit the

configuration file using a text editor on the console operating system or through the

management interface. To use the text editor in the management interface, go to the

virtual machine’s Edit Configuration page and click Use Text Editor.

scsi0:1.name = <fsname>:<diskname>.dsk

This is the standard format for specifying the VMFS file underlying a virtual disk.

sched.disk.shares.<fsname> = <nshares>

This configuration option specifies that the initial disk bandwidth share allocation for a

virtual machine for the disk containing the VMFS file system <fsname> to be

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