VMware GSX Server 3 Administration, Руководство администратора

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C H A P T E R 1 Introduction and System Requirements
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in a Windows virtual machine. For information, see Automating the Installation of GSX
Server on page 52 and Automating the Installation of VMware Tools in a Windows
Guest in the VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide .
With the Microsoft Windows Installer runtime engine, you can pick and choose the
features you want to install.
Automatically Start and Stop Virtual Machines When the Host Starts and Stops
You can configure virtual machines to automatically power on when the GSX Server
host starts or automatically power off when the GSX Server host shuts down. For more
information, see
Powering Virtual Machines On and Off When the Host Starts and
Shuts Down in the VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide .
Connect to Older Virtual Machines and Older GSX Server Hosts
You can connect to older GSX Server hosts with consoles and run virtual machines
from older versions of VMware products. For information, see
Connecting to Older
GSX Server and ESX Server Systems and Older Virtual Machines in the VMware GSX
Server Virtual Machine Guide .
Improved VMware Management Interface
Managing virtual machines and the GSX Server host from a Web browser just got
better. You can configure more host and virtual machine features, including virtual
machine hardware, configuration options and SSL connections. For more information,
see
Using the VMware Management Interface on page 129 .
Log GSX Server Events on Windows Hosts
GSX Server sends information about certain events that occur in the application on
Windows hosts to the Windows Event Viewer. For details, see
Logging GSX Server
Events on Windows on page 125 .
Improved Virtual Disk and Networking Performance
Experience 10 to 20% improvement in virtual disk and networking performance.
Monitor Virtual Machine Performance on Windows Hosts
Use GSX Server specific counters with the Windows Performance console (PerfMon)
to monitor the performance of running virtual machines on Windows hosts. For
details, see
Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance on page 191 .
More Memory for Your Virtual Machines
Allocate up to 3600MB of memory to each virtual machine to run large server
applications. For more information, see
Allocating Memory to a Virtual Machine in the
VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide .