Thursday, December 1, 2016

Creating a virtual machine (vm) on ESXi 5.5 for Windows Server 2012 (Part 2)

Creating a virtual machine (vm) on ESXi 5.5 for Windows Server 2012 (Part 2)

Provisioning the resources for our VM.

If you were born around the 80s you probably remember playing Oregon Trail where you're going out on your own and need to make sure you bring enough supplies for you to survive.  Those were called your provisions and it's the same thing here.  You need to assign resources for everything your server needs to have to be able to run on its own. Just a reminder on how to get to the VM properties: Right click the vm and goto Edit Settings.  ESXi agrees with me and also puts the most important resource to worry about first.