User`s guide

VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
56 VMware, Inc.
 GuestOS–Guestoperatingsystemofthetemplate.
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
template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templatecanbedeployed.
 NumberofVirtualCPUs–Maximumnumberofprocessorsisfour.
Thedatastoreforatemplate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template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templatecanbe
deployed.
 Memory–AmountofRAMallocatedforrunningthetemplate.
 HardDisks–Nameofthedisk,diskspace,andbustypeforeachvirtualhard
disk.
Youcanadd,editorremoveavirtualharddisk.See“A d d i n g VirtualHard
DiskstoTemplates”onpage 59and“EditingHardDisks”onpage 60.
 CPUPriority–PriorityforsharesofCPU.
 MemoryPriority–Priorityforsharesofmemory.
 DeploymentLeaseorStorageLease–Timetoundeployordeletethe
template(ormarkitfordeletion),dependingonwhetherthetemplateis
deployedornot.
 SystemMessages–Informationaboutthevirtualmachine.
4ClickOK.
Editing Advanced Template Properties
YoucanupdateadvancedsettingssuchasCPUandmemoryparametersand
view informationonVMwareToolsandguestcustomization.Forinformation
about supportedversionsofVMwareTools,see“PrerequisitesforGuest
Customization”onpage 41.ForinformationaboutCPUandmemorysettings,
see VMware Infrastructure3documentation.