Virtualization world

VMware vSphere 6  exciting new features that have just been announced so here is a list broken down by area. vSphere Platform (including ESXi) §  Increase in vSphere Host Configuration Maximums §  480 Physical CPUs per Host §  Up to 12 TB of Physical Memory §  Up to 1000 VMs per Host §  Up to 6000 VMs per Cluster §   Virtual Hardware v11 §  128 vCPUs per VM §  4 TB RAM per VM §  Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware §  Serial and parallel port enhancements §  A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports §  Serial and parallel ports can now be removed §  ESXi Account & Password Management §   New ESXCLI commands to add/modify/remove local user accounts §  Configurable account lockout policies §  Password complexity setting via VIM API & vCenter Host Advanced System Settings §...

Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client Home page, select  Customization Specifications Manager . 2 Click  New . 3 In the Guest Customization wizard, select Windows from the  Target Virtual Machine OS  menu. 4 Under Customization Specification Information, enter a name for the specification and an optional description and click  Next . 5 Type the virtual machine owner’s name and organization and click  Next . 6 Enter the guest operating system's computer name and click  Next . The operating system uses this name to identify itself on the network. On Linux systems, it is called the host name. Option Action Enter a name a Type a name. The name can contain alphanumeric characters and the hyphen (-) character. It cannot contain periods (.) or blank spaces and cannot be made up of d...