Specifications

Basic System Administration
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To view the virtual machines on a host
Selectahost.ClicktheVirtualMachinestab.
Thisisalistofallthevirtualmachinesrunningontheselectedmanagedhostandthe
percentageofresourcesallocatedtothevirtualmachine.
To view the configuration of a virtual machine
Seethechaptersin“VirtualMachineManagement”onpage 115forcomplete
informationaboutcreatingvirtualmachinesand
editingtheconfigurationofvirtual
machines.
SelectavirtualmachineandchooseEditSettings.
ThisdisplaystheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogbox.Fromthisdialogboxyoucan
editthefollowingvirtualmachineconfigurationitems:
 Hardware–Addsorremovesthehardwareelementstoyourvirtualmachine:
 Memory
 CPU
 Floppydrive
 CD/DVDdrive
 Networkadapter
 SCSIcontroller
 Harddisk
 Serialport
 Parallelport
 SCSIdevice
 Options–Listssomegeneralvirtualmachinesettings,actionstotakeduringa
powerstatechange,andactionstakenfordebuggingduringaprocess.
 General–Containsvirtualmachinename,virtualmachineconfigurationfile
pathandname,virtualmachineworkinglocation,guestoperatingsystem,
andversionoftheguestoperatingsysteminstalled.
 VMwareTools–Containspowercontrolsettingsforthevirtualmachine’s
toolbarpowericonsandarunscriptsoptionspecifyingifandwhentoruna
VMwareToolsscript.
 PowerManagement–Allowsyoutospecifythevirtualmachine’sresponse
whentheguestoperatingsystemisonstandby.