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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
5. Change the Location of the virtual machine configuration file to
/home/<user>/vmware/cluster1/cluster1.vmx.
6. Click Next.
7. Select 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.
9. Click Next.
10. Click Blank to create a new virtual disk.
11. Choose the VMFS volume on which you want to store the virtual disk.
12. Give the virtual disk image a unique name — for example, cluster1.dsk.
13. If you need a primary SCSI disk larger than 4GB, enter the appropriate value in
the Capacity field.
14. Choose the virtual SCSI node to which you want to attach the virtual disk.
15. By default, the disk mode is set to persistent. Click Persistent to verify the disk
mode.
16. Click Next.
You have successfully created the virtual machine.
The hardware tab for this virtual machine appears. From that tab, you now need to
add additional hardware devices.
Virtual Disk Configuration — You need a shared SCSI controller and shared SCSI
disks for shared access to clustered services and data.
To add a shared SCSI controller and shared SCSI disks, click the Hardware tab, then
take the following steps:
1. Click Add Device.
2. Click Hard disk.
3. Click Blank to create a new virtual disk.
4. Choose the VMFS volume on which you want to store the virtual disk.
5. Give the virtual disk image a unique name — for example, quorum.dsk.
6. Enter the appropriate value in the Capacity field.
7. Choose the virtual SCSI node to which you want to attach the virtual disk.