Specifications

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8 Selectadatastoreinwhichtostorethevirtualmachinefiles,andclickNext.
Youshouldchooseadatastorelargeenoughtoholdthevirtualmachineandallof
itsvirtualdiskfiles.ForESXServerhosts,theDatastoreisconfiguredonthathost,
includingVMFS,NAS,andiSCSIvolumes.
9Under
GuestOperatingSystem,selecttheoperatingsystemfamily(Microsoft
Windows,Linux,NovellNetWare,Solaris,orOther),selecttheversionfromthe
drop‐downmenu,andclickNext.IfyouselectOther,enteradisplaynamefor
youroperatingsystem.Youcanchangethisnameafterthevirtualmachinehas
beencreatedbyopeningtheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogboxandeditingthe
Optionstab>Advanced>General>ConfigurationParameters>
guestOSAltNameparameter.
Thisistheoperatingsystemforyourvirtualmachine.Yourchoiceshouldbebased
onyourplanneduseofthevirtualmachine.Theselectedguestoperating
system
affectsthesupporteddevicesandnumberofvirtualCPUsavailableforthevirtual
machine.
SeetheGuestOperatingSystemInstallationGuidefordetails.
Thewizarddoesnotinstalltheguestoperatingsystemforyou.TheNewVirtual
Machinewizardusesthisinformationtoselectappropriatedefaultvalues,suchas
the
amountofmemoryneeded.
10 Selectthenumberofvirtualprocessorsinthevirtualmachinefromthedrop‐down
menu,andclickNext.
LicensingforVMwareVirtualSMP™isrequiredtopoweronmultiple‐CPU
virtualmachines.SeetheInstallationGuideforESXServer3,ortheSetupGuidefor
yourESX
Server3iproduct,moreinformationonlicensing.
11 Configurethevirtualmachine’smemorysizebyselectingthenumberof
megabytes.
Theminimum,recommended,maximumforbestperformance,andmaximum
sizesarebasedontheguestoperatingsystem.Regardlessoftheguestoperating
system,theminimummemorysizeis4MB.Themaximumdepends
onthehost,
butforESXServer3.5andESXServer3iversion3.5itis65532MB(64GBminus
4MB).Thememorysizemustbeamultipleof4MB.
N
OTETheVirtualCPUspagedoesnotappearifthehostissingle‐processororthe
guestoperatingsystemdoesnotsupportSMP(forexample,NetWareand
WindowsNT4.0).