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Chapter 10 Creating Virtual Machines
MappingaSANLUNgivesyourvirtualmachinedirectaccesstothatSAN,
allowingyoutouseexistingSANcommandstomanagestorageforthedisk.
Youalsohavetheoptionofcreatingyourvirtualmachinewithoutadisk.
SeetheSANConfigurationGuidefordetailsaboutSANLUNconfiguration.
 Ifyouchoosetocreateanewvirtualdisk,gotoStep 19.
 Ifyouchoosetouseanexistingvirtualdisk,gotoStep 24.
 IfyouchoosetocreateamappedSANLUN,goto“MappingaSANLUN”on
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 Ifyouchoosetocreateavirtualmachinewithoutadisk,gotoStep 23.
19 Ifyouchosetocreateanewvirtualdisk,youmustselectthesizeofthevirtual
disk,specifyadatastorelocationforthedisk,andclickNext.
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.
Youcanlocatethevirtualdiskonthesamedatastoreasthevirtualmachineor
selectadatastoreinanotherlocation.UsetheBrowsebuttonto
locateadatastore.
TheBrowseforDatastoredialogboxappears.
20 SelectTheVirtualdevicenodeanddiskmodeforthevirtualdisk.
21 IfyouselectIndependentdiskmode,chooseoneofthefollowing:
a Persistent—Changesareimmediatelyandpermanentlywrittentothedisk.
b Nonpersistent—Changestothediskare
discardedwhenyoupoweroffor
reverttothesnapshot.
22 ClickNext.