User`s manual

Workstation User’s Manual
366 VMware, Inc.
Ifthedeviceonthehostislocatedonbus2withtargetID4,changethislineto:
scsi0:4.fileName = "scsi2:4"
IfyourproblemwasthatthevirtualmachinehasaSCSIadapterandgenericSCSI
device,butWorkstationdidnotrecognizethedevicewhenthevirtualmachine
waspoweredon,youcanstopatthispoint.
6IfthevirtualmachinedoesnotcontainanySCSIdevices,toaddagenericSCSI
de
vic
etoanewvirtualSCSI adapter,ortouseanexistingSCSIdeviceasageneric
SCSIdevice,addthefollowinglineinthe.vmxfile:
scsiZ:Y.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"
IfyouwantedtouseanexistingSCSIdeviceasagenericSCSIdevice,youcanstop
atthispoint.
7IfthevirtualmachinedoesnotcontainanySCSIdevices,ortoaddagenericSCSI
devicetoanewvirtualSCSIadapter,addthefollowinglinesinthe.vmxfile,where
ZistheSCS
Ibusnumberthede
viceusesinthevirtualmachine:
scsiZ:Y.present = "true"
scsiZ.present = "true"
Ifthevirtualmachinesettingseditorstilldoesnotincludethisdeviceinthelistof
availableSCSIdevicesforthisvirtualmachine,contactVMwaretechnicalsupport.
Use Four-Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing
WithVirtualSMP,youcanassignprocessorsandcoresperprocessortoavirtual
machineonanyhostmachinethathasatleasttwologicalprocessors.
Thefollowingareallconsideredtohavetwoormorelogicalprocessors:
 AmultiprocessorhostwithtwoormorephysicalCPUs
 Asingle‐processorhostwithamulticoreCPU
 Asingle‐processorhostwithhyperthreadingenabled
Youcanpoweronandrunmultipledual‐processorvirtualmachinesconcurrently.
Thenumberofprocessorsforagivenvirtualmachineappearsinthesummaryviewof
thevirtualmachine.
N
OTEOnhyperthreadeduniprocessorhosts,performanceofvirtualmachineswith
VirtualSMPmightbebelownormal.Evenonmultiprocessorhosts,performanceis
affectedifyouovercommitbyrunningmultipleworkloadsthatrequiremoretotalCPU
resourcesthanarephysicallyavailable.