Allocating resources to a guest
Now that we have the ability to create virtual machines, we also need a way to amend them. One of the huge advantages of virtualization is the ability to amend the specification of the virtual machines very quickly and easily. Need more RAM? No problem. Need a few more CPU cores? Easily done. The flexibility of virtual hardware is one of its biggest selling points and one of its most powerful features. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how we can amend an existing host to add more RAM and more processors.
Getting ready
You'll need an ESXi host with remote access enabled and a virtual host that you wish to amend.
How to do it…
Let's allocate resources to the guest:
- SSH onto the ESXi host and locate the
.vmxfile of ...
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