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use (first one found by default).</li >
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<li ><codeph >'network'</codeph > - name of the vSphere network to use
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(first one found by default).</li >
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- <li ><codeph >'networkCardType'</codeph > - type of network card used on the host. Default
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- value is <codeph >E1000</codeph >. Valid values are
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- <codeph >E1000</codeph >, <codeph >E1000e</codeph >,
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+ <li ><codeph >'networkCardType'</codeph > - type of network card used
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+ on the host. Default value is <codeph >E1000</codeph >. Valid
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+ values are <codeph >E1000</codeph >, <codeph >E1000e</codeph >,
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<codeph >VmxNet</codeph >, <codeph >Vmxnet2</codeph >,
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<codeph >Vmxnet3</codeph >, and <codeph >PCNet32</codeph >.</li >
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<li ><codeph >'maxCores'</codeph > - number of virtual cores to use on
@@ -324,19 +324,24 @@ discovered 1 host(s)
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<li ><codeph >'maxDiskMB'</codeph > - disk size, in MB, to use on a
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datastore for Eucalyptus instances (free space on the datastore
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by default).</li >
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- <li ><codeph >'uploadViaHost'</codeph > - upload VM disk contents
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- directly to the ESX(i) host rather than through vCenter ("false"
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- by default). This option is ignored when the endpoint is an
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- ESX(i) host. The default behavior is to upload VM's disk files
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- through vCenter. To avoid overloading the vCenter with I/O
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- traffic, however, Eucalyptus can perform the upload directly to
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- an individual host. In this case, if the credentials (login or
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- password) for the host are different from vCenter credentials,
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- they must be specified explicitly in one or more elements
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- contained by the <codeph ><![CDATA[ <endpoint/>]]> </codeph > (e.g.,
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- in each <codeph ><![CDATA[ <datacenter/>]]> </codeph > or each
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+ <li ><codeph >'uploadViaHost'</codeph > - upload VM disk contents directly to the ESX(i) host
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+ rather than through vCenter ("false" by default). This option is
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+ ignored when the endpoint is an ESX(i) host. The default
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+ behavior is to upload VM's disk files through vCenter. To avoid
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+ overloading the vCenter with I/O traffic, however, Eucalyptus
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+ can perform the upload directly to an individual host. In this
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+ case, if the credentials (login or password) for the host are
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+ different from vCenter credentials, they must be specified
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+ explicitly in one or more elements contained by the
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+ <codeph ><![CDATA[ <endpoint/>]]> </codeph > (e.g., in each
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+ <codeph ><![CDATA[ <datacenter/>]]> </codeph > or each
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<codeph ><![CDATA[ <cluster/>]]> </codeph > or each
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- <codeph ><![CDATA[ <host/>]]> </codeph > element).</li >
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+ <codeph ><![CDATA[ <host/>]]> </codeph > element). <note >We
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+ strongly recommend setting the
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+ <codeph >uploadViaHost</codeph > attribute to
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+ <codeph >true</codeph > unless you are unable to provide
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+ Eucalyptus with the credentials of your ESX
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+ hosts.</note ></li >
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</ul >
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</li >
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</ul >
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