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7Iftheresourcepooloptionisavailable,expandthetreeuntilyoulocatethe
resourcepoolinwhichyouwanttorunthevirtualmachine,highlightit,andclick
Next.
Resourcepoolsallowyoutomanageyourcomputingresourceswithinahostor
hostsbysettingthemupinameaningful
hierarchy.Virtualmachinesandchild
resourcepoolssharetheresourcesoftheparentresourcepool.Formore
informationonresourcepools,seetheResourceManagementGuide.
8 Selectadatastoreinwhichtostorethevirtualmachinefiles,andclickNext.
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).
10 Choosetheversionfromthedrop‐downmenu.
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.
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.
11 ClickNext.
12 Selectthenumberofvirtualprocessorsinthevirtualmachinefromthedrop‐down
menu,andclickNext.
13 Configurethevirtualmachine’smemorysizebyselectingthenumberof
megabytes.
Theminimum,recommended,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Numberof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).