vSphere Virtual Machine Administration - VMware Documentation
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration - VMware Documentation
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration - VMware Documentation
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<strong>vSphere</strong> <strong>Virtual</strong> <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Administration</strong><br />
Select the <strong>Virtual</strong> <strong>Machine</strong> Name and Folder<br />
When you create a virtual machine, you provide a unique name for it. The unique name distinguishes it<br />
from existing virtual machines in the virtual machine folder or datacenter. The name can contain up to 80<br />
characters. You can select a datacenter or folder location for the virtual machine, depending on your<br />
organizational needs.<br />
Folders provide a way to store virtual machines for different groups in an organization, and you can set<br />
permissions on them. For a flatter hierarchy, you can put all virtual machines and templates in a datacenter<br />
and organize them a different way.<br />
The virtual machine name determines the name of the virtual machine files and folder on the disk. For<br />
example, if you name the virtual machine win8, the virtual machine files are named win8.vmx, win8.vmdk,<br />
win8.nvram, and so on. If you change the virtual machine name, the names of the files on the datastore do<br />
not change.<br />
Procedure<br />
1 Type a name for the virtual machine.<br />
2 Select or search for the datacenter or folder in which to deploy the virtual machine.<br />
3 Click Next.<br />
Select a Resource<br />
When you deploy a virtual machine, you select the host, cluster, vApp, or resource pool for the virtual<br />
machine to run in. The virtual machine will have access to the resources of the selected object.<br />
For example, a virtual machine has access to the memory and CPU resources of the host on which it resides.<br />
If you select a cluster for the virtual machine, and the administrator has configured the cluster to take<br />
advantage of HA and DRS, the virtual machine will have a greater level of availability.<br />
Procedure<br />
1 Search or browse for the host, cluster, vApp, or resource pool for the virtual machine.<br />
If deploying the virtual machine to the selected location might cause compatibility problems, the<br />
problems appear at the bottom of the window.<br />
2 Click Next.<br />
Select a Datastore<br />
Select the datastore or datastore cluster in which to store the virtual machine configuration files and all of<br />
the virtual disks. Each datastore might have a different size, speed, availability, and other properties. The<br />
available datastores are accessible from the destination resource that you selected.<br />
On the Customize hardware page, you can configure the storage. For example, you can add a new hard<br />
disk, apply a <strong>Virtual</strong> machine storage policy, or place the configuration and disk files on separate storage<br />
devices.<br />
The amount of free space in the datastore is always changing. Ensure that you leave sufficient space for<br />
virtual machine creation and other virtual machine operations, such as growth of sparse files, snapshots,<br />
and so on. To review space utilization for the datastore by file type, see the <strong>vSphere</strong> Monitoring and<br />
Performance documentation.<br />
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