Deactivation of Transparent page Sharing in ESX 3.5.4?

Hello

I'm running two 3.5.4 ESX hosts. I want to disable transparent page sharing for these two hosts; saw this post http://communities.vmware.com/message/251948, it says that you must do the following...

echo 0 >/proc/vmware/config/Mem/ShareScanTotal

echo 0 >/proc/vmware/config/Mem/ShareScanVM

Save changes to the file/etc/vmware/vmkconfig, if only it will not after a reboot.

I browsed this directory and found this...

# pwd
/ proc/vmware/config/MEM
#ls
AdmitHeapMin IdleTaxType ShareScanTime
AllocGuestLargePage kernelResvPad SwapAsyncWritePages
AllocHighThreshold LogLowMemoryStateBT SwapDecayPct
AllocUseGuestPool LogLowMemoryStateUsage SwapFilePersist
AllocUsePSharePool MinFreePct SwapInBatchPages
BalancePeriod SampleActivePctMin SwapIORetry
BonusAllocPct SamplePeriod TestOnAlloc
CtlMaxPercent ShareCOSBufSize TrackUsageAllocAllowance
DesiredAllocEnable ShareEstimatePeriod TrackUsageHeartbeatEnable
DesiredAllocPct ShareEstimateProbe TrackUsageHeartbeatPeriod
HostLocalSwapDir ShareEstimateSamples TrackUsageLPageAllowance
HostLocalSwapDirEnabled ShareRateMax TrackUsageSwapAllowance
IdleTax ShareScanGHz VMOverheadGrowthLimit

Of course I don't see that the two topics mentioned in the thread, someone can help on this please?

I am also to be upgraded these two ESX 4.0 host soon, please suggest what procedure / recommendations for configuration of the GST in ESX 4.0

Thanks in advance.

MILIN

Here's a VMware KB article on the deactivation of GST - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004901 that uses an advanced configuration of ESX (i), they will persist through reboots and the best approach that tweaking manually nodes proc that these changes don't persist not through a reboot.

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