Specifications

VMware, Inc. 303
Chapter 10 Configuration for Clustering
3Keep!the!default!Guest!Operating!System!selection!of!Microsoft!Windows!2000!
Server.!
4 Change!the!Display!Name!field!to!describe!the!virtual!machine.!
For!example,!MSCS Node 1 (Portsaid).
5 Change!the!Location!of!the!virtual!machine!configuration!file!to!
/home/<user>/vmware/cluster1/cluster1.vmx.
6Click!Next.
7 Choose!the!number!of!processors!you!want!the!guest!operating!system!to!
use,!up!
to!2.
8 Change!Memory!to!show!the!amount!of!RAM!you!want!to!allocate!to!this!virtual!
machine!and!click!Next.
9Click!Blank!to!create!a!new!virtual!disk.
10 Choose!the!VMFS!volume!on!which!you!want!to!store!the!virtual!disk.
11 Give!the!virtual!disk!file!a!unique!name,!
for!example,!cluster1.vmdk.
12 If!you!need!a!primary!SCSI!disk!larger!than!4GB,!enter!the!value!in!the!Capacity!
field.
13 Choose!the!virtual!SCSI!node!to!which!you!want!to!attach!the!virtual!disk.
By!default,!the!disk!mode!is!set!to!Persistent.!
14 Click!Persistent!to!verify!the!disk!mode!and!
click!Next.
You!have!created!the!virtual!machine.
The!Hardware!tab!for!this!virtual!machine!appears.!Use!it!to!add!hardware!
devices.
Network Device Configuration
Add!another!virtual!network!adapter!the!cluster!nodes!will!use!to!communicate!with!
each!other.
N
OTE This!example!uses!Microsoft!Windows!2000!Server!as!the!guest!operating!
system.!You!can!substitute!another!Windows!operating!system!that!supports!
Microsoft!Cluster!Service.