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Procedure
1 On the Guest Operating System page of the New Virtual Machine wizard, select an operating system
family.
2 Select an operating system and version from the drop-down menu and click Next.
If any of the total cores available on the host, the maximum virtual CPUs supported by the virtual
machine hardware version, or the maximum supported CPUs on the guest operating system equal 1,
the virtual machine CPU count is set to 1 and the Memory page opens.
3 If you selected Other (32-bit) or Other (64-bit), enter a name for the operating system in the text box.
4 Click Next.
What to do next
You can add memory or CPUs for the virtual machine.
Select the Number of Virtual CPUs in the vSphere Client
You can configure a virtual machine to have up to 128 virtual CPUs. The number of licensed CPUs on the
host, the number of CPUs that the guest operating system supports, and the virtual machine hardware
version determine the number of virtual CPUs that you can add.
VMware Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP) enables a single virtual machine to use multiple
physical processors simultaneously. You must have Virtual SMP to power on multiprocessor virtual
machines.
Procedure
1 On the CPUs page of the New Virtual Machine wizard, select a value from the Number of virtual
sockets drop-down menu.
2 Select a value from the Number of cores per socket drop-down menu.
To determine the total number of cores, multiply the number of cores per socket by the number of
virtual sockets. The resulting total number of cores is a number equal to or less than the number of
logical CPUs on the host.
The total number of cores appears.
3 Click Next.
The Memory page opens.
What to do next
Select the memory for the virtual machine.
Configure Virtual Memory in the vSphere Client
The amount of memory that you allocate for a virtual machine is the amount of memory that the guest
operating system detects.
The minimum memory size is 4 MB for virtual machines that use BIOS firmware. Virtual machines that use
EFI firmware require at least 96 MB of RAM or they cannot power on.
The maximum memory size for a virtual machine depends on the host's physical memory and the virtual
machine's hardware version.
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