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Thecoloredtrianglesalongthesliderrepresenttheseamountsasindicatedbythe
keyonthewizard.Youcanalsodragthesliderorselectthenumberusingtheup
anddownarrows.Themaximumforbestperformancerepresentsthethreshold
abovewhichthehost’sphysicalmemoryisinsufficienttorun
thevirtualmachine
atfullspeed.Thisvaluefluctuatesasconditionsonthehostchange(asvirtual
machinesarepoweredonoroff,forexample).
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13 Choosethenetworkstoconnecttoandtheiroptionsbyselectinghowmany
networkadapters(NICs)youwanttoconnectto,thenamesof
thenetworks,and
whetheryouwanttoconnecttothematpoweron.
TheNetworkdrop‐downmenuliststheport groupsthatareconfiguredforvirtual
machineuseonthehost.Ifnovirtualmachineportgroupsareconfigured,a
warningdialogboxappears,andyouarenotallowedto
configureanyvirtual
networkcards.
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15 Specifythesizeofthevirtualdisk.
Enterthedisksizeinmegabytes(MB)orgigabytes(GB).Thedefaultis4GB.The
availablespaceontheselectedVMFSvolumeislisted.Youcanconfigureadisk
fromassmallas1MBtoaslarge
as2TB(2048GB),usingawholenumberof
MB or GB.
Thevirtualdiskshouldbelargeenoughtoholdtheguestoperatingsystemandall
ofthesoftwarethatyouintendtoinstallwithroomfordataandgrowth.
Youcannotchangethevirtualdisk’smaximumcapacitylater,butyoucaninstall
additionalvirtualdiskslaterbyusingtheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogbox.
Forexample,youneedabout1GBofactualfreespaceonthefilesystemcontaining
thevirtualdisktoinstallWindowsServer2003andapplications,suchasMicrosoft
Office,insidethevirtualmachine.
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OTEExercisecautionwhenyouconfigureavirtualmachinetoconnectto
multiplenetworks.Becausevirtualmachinessharetheirphysicalnetwork
hardwarewiththehost,theaccidentalormaliciousbridgingoftwonetworksbya
virtualmachinecanoccur.MinimumSpanningTreeprotocolcannotprotect
againsttheseoccurrences.