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L. PatrãoVMware vSphere Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0208-9_7

7. Virtual Machines

Luciano Patrão1  
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Selfkant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create virtual machines and store them on the Datastores that you created Chapter 6.

This is the last chapter in which the ESXi host is used and the screenshots are from a stand-alone ESXi. In the following chapters, we will move to VMware vCenter and start doing all the tasks through vCenter (Datastores, Storage, Virtual Machines, central networking, etc.).

Before I explain how to create a virtual machine, let’s discuss some of the components and features of VMs and ...

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