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Chapter 6 Working with Virtual Machines
5Revieworedittheappropriateproperties:
 Name–Virtualmachinenamethatcontainsonlyalphanumericcharacters
(a–z,A–Z,0–9),hyphens,underscores,orperiods.Maximumlengthis15
charactersforWindowsvirtualmachinesand64charactersforUNIXand
Linuxvirtualmachines.
 Description–(Optional)Maximumnumberofcharactersis128.
 Service–Servicecontainingthevirtualmachine.
 Stage–Stageoftheservicecontainingthevirtualmachine.
 Template–Templatethatthevirtualmachineisbasedon.
 Datastore–Storagelocationofthevirtualmachine.
 GuestOS–Guestoperatingsystemofthevirtualmachine.Youmust
undeployavirtualmachinebeforeeditingthisfield.
Ifyouselecta64‐bitguestoperatingsystem,thedatastoremustbeconnected
toanESXServ erhostthatprovidestherequired64‐bitprocessorforthatguest
OS.You
canproceedwithoutfulfillingthisrequirementbutyoucannot
deploythevirtualmachineuntilyouattachahostwiththecorrectprocessor.
Ifyouhavesomebutnotall64‐bithosts,Stage Managerlimitsthenumberof
hostsonwhichthevirtualmachinecanbedeployed.
 IPAddress–InternalIPaddressthatStage Managerconfiguresforthevirtual
machine.Youmustundeployavirtualmachinebeforeeditingthisfield.
EditingtheIPaddressdoesnotchangetheIPaddressforthevirtualmachine.
TheeditingprocessaffectsonlytheIPaddressthatStage Managerconfigured
internallyforthe
machine.See“ChangingIPAddresses”onpage 161.
 NumberofVirtualCPUs–Maximumnumberofprocessorsisfour.
Thedatastoreforavirtualmachinemustbeconnectedtoahostthatprovides
therequiredSMPtechnologyfortheguestoperatingsystem.Ifyouchoosea
CPUnumbernotcurrentlycompatiblewiththeCPUofthehost,youcannot
deploythevirtualmachineuntilyouattachahostwiththeappropriateSMP
support.IfyouhavesomebutnotallhoststhatprovidetherequiredSMP
technology,Stage Managerlimitsthenumberofhostsonwhichthevirtual
machinecanbedeployed.
 Memory–AmountofRAMallocatedforrunningthevirtualmachine.