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Chapter 3 Managing and Configuring Stage Manager
To edit advanced template properties
1Intheleftpane,clickVMTemplates.
2MovethepointeroverthetemplatenameandchoosePropertiesfromthemenu.
3ClickAdvancedProperties.
4 UpdatetheCPUsettings:
 CPUPriority–PriorityforsharesofCPU.
 CPUReservation–MinimumamountofCPUsetasideforthetemplate.
 CPULimit–MaximumamountofCPUavailableforthetemplate.
 Use32‐bitVirtualCPU(OverridetheHostCPUType)–Bydefault,the
virtualCPUtypeassumesthephysicalhostCPUtype.
Selectthischeckboxtooverridethedefaultbehaviorandensurethevirtual
CPUtypeis32‐bit.Forexample,youmighthaveatemplatewitha32‐
bitguest
operatingsystemthatdoesnothavetherequiressoftware(kernelordrivers)
torunona64‐bitprocessor.Anotherexampleinvolvesamixed(32‐bitand
64‐bit)ESXhostenvironmentwhereyouneedtocompleteatestingprocess
specificallyona32‐bitguestoperatingsystemand
thatoperatingsystem
accommodatesboth32‐bitand64‐bitCPUarchitecture.
5 Updatethememorysettings:
 MemoryPriority–Priorityforsharesofmemory.
 MemoryReservation–Minimumamountofmemorysetasideforthe
template.
 MemoryLimit–Maximumamountofmemoryavailableforthetemplate.
6Vieworupdatethevirtualmachinetoolandcustomizationsettings:
 VMware ToolsInstalled–StatusofwhetherVMwareToolsisinstalledornot.
IfUnknown(Mustdeploytodetermine)appears,deploythevirtualmachine
andcheckthisvalueagain.
 VMware ToolsInternalVer sio n–VersionofVMware Toolsinstalledonthe
template.
IfVMwareToolsisnotinstalled,NotApplicableappears.
ForVMwareSupportcases,aVMwarerepresentativemightrequestthis
version.