5.4.4. Explanation of Settings in the VM Interface Profile Window

Network

A drop-down menu of the available networks to apply the VNIC profile.

Name

The name of the VNIC profile. This must be a unique name with any combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores between 1 and 50 characters.

The description of the VNIC profile. This field is recommended but not mandatory.

A drop-down menu of the available Network Quality of Service policies to apply to the VNIC profile. QoS policies regulate inbound and outbound network traffic of the VNIC.

A check box to toggle port mirroring. Port mirroring copies layer 3 network traffic on the logical network to a virtual interface on a virtual machine. It it not selected by default.

A drop-down menu to select available custom properties to apply to the VNIC profile. Use the + and - buttons to add and remove properties respectively.

A check box to toggle the availability of the profile to all users in the environment. It is selected by default.