Specifications

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8. Allocate an amount of memory to the virtual machine.
The New Virtual Machine Wizard provides a default value based on your guest
operating system selection, along with the recommended range and the total
amount of memory all running virtual machines can use.
The wizard also indicates the minimum amount of memory recommended by
the manufacturer and the GSX Server recommended maximum value for best
performance of your virtual machine on this server host.
To change the amount of memory to be allocated to the virtual machine, move
the slider to the appropriate location, use the spin controller next to the field or
type a new value in the field.
Caution: You cannot allocate more than 2000MB of memory to a virtual
machine if it is stored on a file system that cannot support files larger than 2GB,
such as FAT16. You will not be able to power on such a virtual machine. Further,
you cannot allocate more than 2000MB of memory to a virtual machine if it is
stored on a FAT32 file system, even though it does support files up to 4GB in size.
For more information about memory, see Understanding Memory Usage in the
VMware GSX Server Administration Guide and Allocating Memory to a Virtual
Machine on page 340.