Specifications

8 On the Ready to Complete New Virtual Machine page, review your selections and click Finish to create
the new virtual machine.
After you create the virtual machine, install a guest operating system and VMware Tools on it. You can find
instructions for how to install a guest operating system and VMware Tools in the vSphere Tutorial accessible
from the vSphere Client. Select the virtual machine and follow the links on the Getting Started tab to learn
how to install an operating system.
Where to Go Next
You have set up your vSphere environment. From here, you can do the following:
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Expand your capacity by adding more hosts and storage.
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Expand your virtual datacenter by creating and importing new virtual machines.
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Perform a consolidation of your physical servers using the Consolidation wizard.
For more information about how to evaluate the features and benefits of vSphere, go to
http://www.vmware.com/go/vi_evalresources.
The vSphere Tutorial
The vSphere tutorial contains information about many of the basic vSphere components and tasks.
You can access the tutorial through the Explore Further links on the Getting Started tabs in the vSphere Client
when you want learn more about the object selected in the inventory.
You can also access the tutorial from the Help menu in the vSphere Client.
vSphere Documentation
Refer to the VMware vSphere 4.0 documentation to information on advanced host and vCenter Server
configuration, setup for larger deployments for production environments, as well as information on advanced
vSphere features.
The vSphere documentation consists of the combined vCenter Server and ESXi Embedded documentation set.
To access the current versions of this manual and other books, go to the vSphere 4.0 Documentation page on
the VMware Web site.
The vSphere documentation consists of the combined vCenter Server and ESXi Installable documentation set.
To access the current versions of this manual and other books, go to the vSphere 4.0 Documentation page on
the VMware Web site.
The vSphere documentation consists of the combined vCenter Server and ESX documentation set. To access
the current versions of this manual and other books, go to the vSphere 4.0 Documentation page on the VMware
Web site.
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