Memory management in vSphere 5 happens with following 4 states. High State: 100% of minFree available (<100% and >=64%, TPS is in action) Soft State: 64% of minFree is available (<64% and >=32%, Ballooning is in action) Hard State: 32% of minFree is available (<32% and >= 16%, Compression, Page Swapping) Low State: 16% of minFree… Continue reading vSphere 6, Clear state
Month: June 2015
ESXi 6 – minFree value
minFree is associated with High Memory state of ESXi 6 or prior to it. If you are wondering how ESXi is calculating minFree value, here is the math behind it. Value of minFree is 899 MB for the ESXi host with upto 28 GB RAM. host with more than 28 GB RAM, minFree is calculated… Continue reading ESXi 6 – minFree value
Modify DCUI access list
In vSphere 6 or prior, by default ROOT is the user who has access to DCUI, even in the lockdown mode. If I wish to add additional users in this list, how to do it? Using vSphere Web Client Select your host, go to Manage->Settings->Advanced System Settings and try to locate DCUI.Access parameter as shown… Continue reading Modify DCUI access list
vSphere 6, Lockdown mode
What is Lockdown mode? to improve security of ESXi host which is being managed by vCenter server, we enable lockdown mode on that host, that way it will restrict any operations to be carried out on that host directly but you will be forced to go via vCenter server only to be able to manage… Continue reading vSphere 6, Lockdown mode