
In this video I will show you how to • Create virtual machines • Boot virtual machines • Understand the Virtual Machine system files • Identify VM virtual hardware components The Objective is to understand what is a virtual machine composed of, create a virtual machine and then specify the settings of each individual virtual hardware component. Let's go ahead and create a virtual machine. To do that, we can right-click in a resource pool and select New Virtual Machine, or we can right-click on the ESX server and select New Virtual Machine. To install an operating system, you must use the virtual machine's console. The virtual machine's console, available in the VI Client, provides the mouse, keyboard and screen functionality. The VM console allows access to the BIOS of the virtual machine, and offers the ability to power on and off and to reset the virtual machine. The virtual machine's display name is used to name the files that make up the virtual machine itself. Therefore, avoid using special characters, including spaces, in the virtual machine's display name. Since the service console is Linux-based, file names with special characters or spaces can often cause problems. Here we can specify where we're going to put the actual files for the virtual machine. Except for the log files, the name of each file starts with the virtual machine's name (VM_name). Every virtual machine has: - A configuration file (. vmx), - One or more virtual disk files (first virtual disk has <b>...</b>
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