Get Started with VMware Virtualization

0:00Hey there everyone, what's up and welcome. I hope your day is going awesome. If

0:05you haven't met

0:05before, I'm Kelvin Tran and I remember when I was first learning virtualization

0:11. This must have been

0:12back in 2012 or somewhere near that. So a number of years back and I fired up

0:18my copy of Orco Virtual

0:21Box for no other reason than hey it was free. I went through the whole rigmar

0:27ole of creating a

0:28virtual machine. I set the virtual machine to use. It must have been Windows 7

0:34at the time I believe

0:35and I went through customizing the hardware for that virtual machine and I

0:41clicked finish

0:42and start and it just sat there on what I now know was the network boot screen

0:49because I didn't

0:50have an operating system because I clicked Windows 7 and thought hey that's

0:54just going to install

0:55Windows 7 for me. What's nice so file? No one ever said that I was a

0:59particularly smart 8 year old

1:01but then I got to thinking right now that if I had had some soup to dessert

1:07start to finish

1:09Zero to Hero guy on using virtualization and starting up virtual machines that

1:15could have been a

1:16heck of a lot easier of an experience and hey it's 2023. It's never been easier

1:23to start with

1:23virtualization. So that's what this series is going to be. Something that I

1:29could have used then

1:30and something that you can use now if you are just getting started with virtual

1:35ization and you

1:36haven't been exposed to it before. Now you might well have your eyes set on

1:41some more advanced goal

1:43like working with VMware vSphere or working with VMware NSX or some other kind

1:50of virtualization

1:51product out of the millions of applications there are for virtualization but

1:56the hum will be getting

1:58for all of that is going to be the virtual machine. So we're going to go ahead

2:03and kick this series

2:04off by talking about what virtualization is in general talking about some of

2:10the benefits that

2:11we get from using virtualization and then we're going to go ahead and take a

2:16look at deploying a

2:18Windows 11 based virtual machine on your own computer that way you can get

2:23started with virtualization

2:25get some practice with it get comfortable with the concept and then you can

2:29move on to some of your

2:31loftier virtualization goals. So I'll catch you in the next video where we talk

2:35about what virtualization

2:37really is. Let's go.

0:00So if you've been in the IT industry for really any amount of time nowadays,

0:05there is a solid chance that you've heard of Katerm virtual machines and

0:11virtualization and maybe it was a co-worker saying, "Oh, I have to deploy a

0:17virtual machine today."

0:19Or, "God forbid, you get a priority one ticket that says, "Oh, no, everything's

0:24down because the virtual machines are down."

0:26And if you've ever asked, "Well, what's a virtual machine and why are they such

0:31a big deal?"

0:32You probably got the classic answer for what virtual machines are, which is,

0:38"Oh, it's just a computer inside of a computer."

0:41And then you have to go through the mental gymnastics of trying to figure out,

0:46"Wait, do I take off the side panel of one and then put one computer inside of

0:51the other?"

0:51Like, "How does that work?"

0:53And so in this video, because I actually think that the computer inside of a

0:59computer definition is a good start,

1:01because it gives you a nice mental image for sort of what we're doing with

1:05virtualization.

1:06But I think that we can do better.

1:08And so I want to go ahead and show you what virtualization really is, and more

1:13importantly,

1:13why the heck we care anyway? Let's go.

1:16So as we begin to talk about virtualization,

1:20I actually don't want us to think about technology right now.

1:23I want us to think about running a small business.

1:26So let's pretend that we're owners of a small store selling.

1:29You know what? I'll leave that part to your imagination, actually.

1:33But whatever it is that we're selling,

1:35we're going to have a lot of responsibilities inside of that store to help keep

1:39it running.

1:39So let's go ahead and just for simplicity for this example,

1:43let's condense it down to two main responsibilities.

1:47So the first one, let's go ahead and write this down here,

1:50is going to be customer service.

1:52So greeting customers, processing transactions,

1:57basically someone akin to a cashier.

1:59And then the second main responsibility here is going to be to restock the

2:05shelves,

2:06because let's say that we are just that popular of a store,

2:10items are just flying off the shelves,

2:13we need someone on the floor to make sure that every shelf stays populated.

2:19So how do we make sure that we have enough people on the store

2:24to handle these responsibilities right here?

2:26Well, there's a couple of options that we could take.

2:29The first option, the most logically intuitive probably,

2:33is going to be we've got two responsibilities here.

2:36So let's go ahead and hire two people, one free responsibility.

2:40So let's say that employee number one right here,

2:45this is a cashier, and then we're going to hire a second employee

2:50to be a stocker to keep the shelves populated.

2:54So on the surface, this seems like it would be a great system.

2:59You've got a dedicated cashier that's processing transactions

3:03and making sure that customers know where to go,

3:06and then you have a stocker that's roaming the floors,

3:09making sure that none of the shelves are empty.

3:12What's the problem?

3:13Well, in a larger store, you might actually see a division like this,

3:18where you have dedicated people for each of these roles.

3:21But what if you're not a bigger store?

3:24What if you're just a really small store,

3:27and it happens to be a really slow day?

3:30Well, what happens with the cashier?

3:32Well, if they have no one to process a transaction for,

3:35well, what happens when you just go out their phone

3:38and start scrolling and mind you, as a small business owner,

3:41you're paying them for that time.

3:43They just have nothing to do.

3:44And if it is a really slow day, and you have a stocker there

3:49who's roaming the floors, well, no one's buying any of these items,

3:52the shelves aren't going to be empty.

3:55You're also paying a second person here to not really do anything.

3:59Okay, well, you might argue then that, yeah, when it's slow,

4:04they're not going to be doing anything.

4:06But once the store starts picking up, once it gets busy,

4:10they're surely going to be pulling their own weight, right?

4:13Well, maybe.

4:14But here's the thing with something like a small store.

4:17Let's take a look.

4:17If we graph out the time against the number of customers

4:22that are in the store, they're not going to be busy all the time.

4:25That graph for an average small store is going to look,

4:29maybe something like this, right?

4:32Where you have these periods right here,

4:35of a lot of customers, a very, very busy time.

4:38And then you have these periods down here,

4:42where you don't have any customers at all.

4:45And during those periods down here,

4:48where you don't have a lot of customers,

4:51what if we could just have the cashier here,

4:54step away from the area of the cash register,

4:58and just restock the shelves themselves?

5:01In other words, what if we don't have someone

5:05who's only job is to stop the shelves,

5:08and instead just have this one cashier right here

5:12do both of those responsibilities?

5:15And as the owner of the store, you're probably like,

5:18"Actually, yeah, that makes a ton of sense."

5:22Assuming that it's not too burdensome on this one cashier

5:26to do both of these responsibilities at any given point in time,

5:30that means that you can save on staffing the second person,

5:35which means that you don't have to pay their salary,

5:38which means that you don't have to handle benefits

5:41and insurance and any of that,

5:43because the one thing that no small business owner

5:46has ever said is, "Hmm, you know what I wanna do today?

5:50"I wanna hire someone and staff them and pay their salary

5:54"just to get no real benefit out of it."

5:56So the key idea that I want you to keep in mind here

6:00is that instead of looking at this cashier

6:04as you're just a cashier,

6:06and the only thing that you can do is be a cashier,

6:10we look at this person instead as,

6:12"Hey, you're a staff member who works for the store."

6:16So as well as being a cashier,

6:19if you have room to fit some other responsibilities

6:22into your schedule, well, you're a person

6:25who works for the store and you're perfectly capable

6:28of, in this case, the second responsibility right here.

6:32So, simplified example out of the way,

6:35let's go ahead and take flat logic

6:38and move it into computing.

6:40So here's an example of a server rack right here.

6:44If you've ever had the privilege of being in a data center,

6:47you've probably walked down long rows of these

6:51that go on four days, and in these server racks,

6:55we might have networking equipment,

6:57we might have servers obviously,

6:59and we might have some storage equipment as well.

7:02So, a long, long time ago before I was even alive,

7:06the way that servers were typically deployed in data centers,

7:10it goes something like this.

7:12So, let's say that we had a physical 2U server

7:16right here in green, and this guy is serving

7:20as our domain controller.

7:21And then, let's go ahead and add in another server.

7:24Let's say this one, this one is a big boy

7:27for you if I can count correctly,

7:29that's for for you right here.

7:31And this guy is our file server.

7:34Let's go ahead and add some more servers.

7:37So, let's go ahead and add one more right here

7:40that is going to be a web server.

7:43And just for fun, let's go ahead and add in one more server.

7:47So, I'm gonna go over here now

7:49because I'm running out of space over there.

7:51So, let's go ahead and add another server.

7:55And we'll call this an email server

7:58because this is the 1990s,

8:00and we're still running email servers

8:01on-prem and Zav in the cloud.

8:03So, less again, is a system that seems

8:07like it would work just fine.

8:09But you remember in our previous example there,

8:12the problem came up when we were looking at a person

8:16and saying your role and your primary responsibility

8:20is less, therefore, the only thing

8:22that we're gonna task you to do is this.

8:25That was the problem over there.

8:27Over here, we have the exact same problem,

8:30except now it's servers.

8:32We're looking at a server and saying,

8:34this is your responsibility.

8:36You are a domain controller or you are an email server.

8:39And the only thing that you can do is serve email.

8:43Well, what if there's just not that much email

8:46to send right now?

8:47Actually, better yet, what if we had this web server right here

8:52and we had the graph from the last example

8:55where there were some times where there were a lot of people

9:00trying to get into a store, or in this case,

9:03visit the website, and then other times,

9:05it's not quite so busy.

9:07Well, during that up period of time with a lot of people,

9:12you have that web server utilizing maybe close

9:15to all of its hardware resources.

9:18And then during the other times where it's not that busy,

9:21well, you have that hardware that you paid for,

9:24that you paid thousands of dollars for sitting right there,

9:28not doing anything at all, just being a web server.

9:32So the way that we're gonna solve this problem right here

9:36in terms of the inefficiency is pretty much the exact same way

9:41that we solved the last problem that we had.

9:45But one catch, maybe we don't want a single operating system

9:50running, hmm, let's see, our domain controller,

9:54our email server, our file server, our web server.

9:58Well, what if the web server runs on Linux

10:01and the domain controller, because we're using Microsoft's

10:04Active Directory, we have to run it on a Windows server.

10:08What do we do there?

10:09How do we boot two separate operating systems

10:12at the exact same time?

10:14So what we're gonna wanna do here is firstly,

10:18scratch this out because it's no good.

10:21We don't wanna do things this way.

10:23What we can do instead is right here,

10:26we're gonna add a big server.

10:29This is going to be a server with a lot of CPU,

10:33a lot of memory, a lot of storage.

10:36And we're gonna make the server right here

10:39something called a hypervisor.

10:42You can also call it a host if you want.

10:45And if we just blow up our host right here,

10:48make it really big.

10:50What we can do is basically split this hosts

10:54or hypervisor's resources up between

10:58these four servers that we had.

11:01So what did we have?

11:02We had our domain controller right there.

11:06Let's go ahead and switch my colors.

11:07We had our file server, we had our web server.

11:12So whoops, www.

11:16And then we had our email server as well.

11:19And here's the cool part.

11:22These virtual servers right here

11:25are these virtual machines from the host's perspective.

11:30These VMs as we call them are just running basically

11:34as applications.

11:35If you're on your own personal computer

11:38and you open up your web browser, for example,

11:40it's gonna take up a certain amount of CPU,

11:43a certain amount of RAM, depending on what web browser,

11:46it's gonna be more RAM than some other browsers, wink wink.

11:49And these virtual machines right here

11:52will take up a certain amount of RAM,

11:54a certain amount of CPU, a certain amount of storage.

11:58But because they are separated within the host,

12:03we can run separate operating systems

12:05and separate applications and keep separate environments.

12:09So going back to our earlier point,

12:11that the main controller can run the Windows server,

12:14the file and the web and the email server,

12:17they can all run Linux and their own sets

12:20of applications and settings.

12:22But physically, we just have the one server right here.

12:27We don't have these separated physical servers.

12:30We're just running different applications,

12:33different virtual machines within this one

12:37physical hypervisor host.

12:39This is awesome.

12:41That's been a big picture look

12:43at why we would really want to use

12:46a virtualization in the first place.

12:49Throughout this entire video,

12:51throughout this entire series,

12:53and honestly, throughout your entire virtualization journey,

12:57it will always come down to one key word, efficiency.

13:02So with that in mind, in the next video,

13:06we're gonna go ahead and take a look

13:08at some of the benefits that we can net using virtualization.

13:13So I'll catch you over there for that.

13:15In the meantime, I hope this is informative for you,

13:17and I'd like to thank you for viewing.

0:00So in the previous video, we took a look at how virtualization

0:05actually works and the core idea that we're working with when we deploy virtual

0:11ization being, hey,

0:13we've got some hardware here. Instead of saying we can only use this hardware

0:18for one purpose,

0:19let's let our hardware

0:21multitask for us and fulfill multiple responsibilities in our environment.

0:27And so in this video, what I want to do is pick up where we left off there and

0:32take a look at the benefits of

0:34using virtualization. Let's go.

0:36So I've cleaned up the board a little bit here and I just want to take some

0:41time real quick to

0:42take a look at some of the benefits of doing things this way because there are

0:48a lot of benefits,

0:49but there's a few big ones. So the first main benefit is going to be reduced

0:56cost.

0:56So reduced TCL, TCL is an acronym that stands for total cost of ownership.

1:02And specifically, it's going to help us reduce both our CapEx and our OpEx.

1:10So how does it help us to reduce CapEx? Well, if you think about the fact that

1:16without virtualization,

1:18we'd have to buy four physical servers and with virtualization,

1:22we just have to buy one using the example that we did previously.

1:26Well, it's generally going to be cheaper. And by generally, I mean pretty much

1:31always going to be cheaper to buy one

1:34beefier server than it is going to be to buy four individual less high powered

1:41servers.

1:42Now that's going to be assuming that that one beefy server we buy is roughly

1:49equivalent in horsepower

1:51and resources to the four individual servers.

1:54But the point still stands that generally speaking, when you buy less servers,

1:59you spend less money.

2:01Now, in terms of CapEx, we also get other benefits as well because we have less

2:07servers.

2:07Well, that means that we don't have as much physical footprint.

2:11That means that we don't need as many racks, which reduces our cost there.

2:15And with less racks, that means that the building that contains those racks,

2:21your data center,

2:22doesn't have to be so big that reduces your cost of the building.

2:26I could go on and on, but compared to OpEx, the savings in CapEx are pretty

2:33obvious.

2:33The savings in OpEx are not so obvious.

2:36How would you save on your operational expenditures?

2:40Well, here's an example. Let's say that you don't have your own data center

2:46premises.

2:47What you're doing as a company is going out to a co-location provider.

2:53So this is a company that has built up a data center and they're basically

2:57leasing it out,

2:58like an apartment, but for servers.

3:00Well, generally in a co-location provider's facility, you're paying by rack

3:07unit.

3:07So the more rack units you take up in that co-location provider's racks,

3:13the more servers you have, the more you're going to pay that co-location

3:17provider.

3:18Ah, but we reduced our physical footprint by going with a virtualization

3:24approach.

3:25So less servers, less rack units, less cost going to that co-location provider.

3:31The other thing that you could save big on here is licensing.

3:37So we're going to talk more about how VMware handles licensing in a later video

3:43in this series.

3:44But even though you do have licensing for the actual hypervisor software

3:51that you're using to run those virtual machines,

3:54you have other licensing savings that come along the way.

3:58Let me give you a quick example.

4:00And I know that this is a VMware series, but Microsoft has a really easy

4:04example to reach to here.

4:06When you use a Windows server as a hypervisor, the feature is called HyperV.

4:11And you're using a Windows Server Data Center Edition server to run your VMs.

4:17Let's say you have a bunch of Windows Server virtual machines.

4:22There is a feature.

4:23It's called automatic virtual machine activation AVMA,

4:27where you can use your one Windows Server Data Center license for your hyper

4:33visor

4:34to activate and to license all of your Windows Server virtual machines.

4:38So whereas Microsoft would have you buy a license for every single server

4:45without virtualization with virtualization,

4:49you just have to buy that one license key for your Windows Server hypervisor

4:53and it'll license all of those virtual machines.

4:56And with the way that Microsoft handles licensing,

5:00trust me, that is a giant savings.

5:03Both in money and headaches.

5:05So that's one.

5:06What's another one?

5:08Well, you got the flexibility of virtualization as well.

5:12And while I'm at it, I'm actually going to go ahead and add scalability to this

5:17one as well

5:18because I can go ahead and knock these two points out in one.

5:21So how does this make our data center more flexible?

5:25Well, we can really just think of the hypervisor as a pool of resources

5:32because the job of the hypervisor is just to run our virtual machines

5:37that are serving as the actual web servers or email servers.

5:42We don't have to say this physical server is dedicated for any one of those

5:47specific jobs.

5:49We can say that this physical server exists to provide a giant pool,

5:54a giant bucket of CPU power, a giant bucket of RAM, a giant bucket of storage.

6:01And here's the key.

6:03We can take out of those buckets as we want.

6:06So we need a new web server.

6:08Yeah.

6:09Okay.

6:09That's fine.

6:10Pull some CPU out of the bucket, pull some RAM out of the bucket.

6:13That's cool.

6:14And the scalability piece of the puzzle comes into play when let's say we have

6:20a web server

6:21that has a lot of demand and we did not give that web server enough resources.

6:27Well, let's see.

6:28Let's look in the bucket for the CPU power.

6:31Yep.

6:31We've got some more CPU power left.

6:34Let's look in the bucket for RAM.

6:36Okay.

6:36We've got some RAM left.

6:38Let's pull some more CPU.

6:39Let's pull some more RAM and let's give that to a web server so that it can use

6:44it to provide that service

6:47and meet this new increase level of demand.

6:51And this concept is actually called elasticity.

6:55It comes into play when we talk about the cloud a lot, but with virtualization

7:01because we are doing a lot of the same things where we have a hypervisor.

7:05It's just a giant pool of resources.

7:07Once again, we can have a lot of the same conversations about elasticity as we

7:13would in the cloud.

7:14So if you take nothing else away from this video, the big thing to remember is

7:20that with virtualization, instead of dedicating physical

7:25resources, a whole physical server to run a particular service or to do a

7:30particular job.

7:32Now we've got physical equipment that we are turning into pools or buckets of

7:38resources and then provisioning these virtual machines, these virtual servers

7:44that we can pull resources from out of those buckets as we want.

7:48Now in the next video, we're going to go ahead and take a look at how you can

7:53actually start getting your feet wet in the world of virtualization and start

7:58practicing.

7:59Because the big thing that you might be saying to me right now is Kelvin, I don

8:06't live sleep in the data center.

8:08I don't know if you've noticed that or not.

8:11How am I supposed to practice when you need apparently all of this expensive

8:16data center gear?

8:18Well, you actually don't.

8:19In fact, if you're watching this on a computer, on a desktop or a laptop, you

8:24can start practicing virtualization right now.

8:28And we're going to take a look at how to do that in the next video.

8:31So I'll catch you over there.

8:32In the meantime, I'll listen to the forum for you and I'd like to thank you for

8:36viewing.

0:00So if your goal is to work with things like VMware's vSphere or ESXi product

0:07for data center virtualization eventually,

0:09one of the best ways that you can start practicing right now today is by

0:16running virtual machines on your local computer,

0:19getting it sent from scratch, creating a virtual machine, getting it all

0:23working,

0:24that is a very, very good source of practice to get comfortable with virtual

0:30ization.

0:30And fortunately for us, that's exactly what we're going to be doing.

0:34We're going to go ahead and in this video, take a look at a product from VMware

0:40called VMware Workstation.

0:42And that's what we call a desktop hypervisor.

0:45It's going to let us run virtual machines on our very own desktop or laptop

0:50computer.

0:51The one that you might very well be watching this video on right now.

0:56Let's go.

0:56So I have a web browser open right here, but we're actually not going to start

1:01off on the web browser.

1:03And before I go on, I do want to say that right now, let's go ahead and pull up

1:08my Windows version.

1:10I am running Windows 11.

1:13So this is really going to be applicable for any modern version of Windows.

1:18If you're running a Mac or you're running some distribution of Linux,

1:23the key things that you're trying to verify here are going to be the same as

1:28what I'm looking at.

1:29But the specific way that you're going to be verifying those things will differ

1:34.

1:34So if you need some guidance as to where you can actually find what we're

1:39verifying here

1:40on your specific operating system platform, just go ahead and Google your

1:45platform and then documentation

1:48how to find and then fill in what we're specifically looking for.

1:52So with that out of the way, let's go ahead and open up Task Manager on this

1:57Windows system here.

1:59Now, if you're running Windows as well, there's a couple of ways you can do

2:03this.

2:03You can either do a control of delete and then open Task Manager that way.

2:07Or you can do what I'm about to do, which is just to press Control, Shift,

2:12Escape on the keyboard

2:14and that will open up Task Manager.

2:16So it opened up on another monitor over here.

2:19So I'm just going to drag it right over here so you can see it.

2:22Let's go ahead and maximize this window right here.

2:26And for you, it might start up on processes.

2:30Just go ahead and click on the Performance tab right over here.

2:34If you do get on the Processes tab here, this is going to be where all of the

2:39information

2:40that we're looking for is going to be contained.

2:42So really, there are four things that we care about in this view here.

2:48There's potentially more, but we're just going to take a look at four key

2:52attributes

2:53of the system.

2:54So the first two have to do with your CPU.

2:58And the first one, we can take a look at a couple of places.

3:01So right here, you can see my core count and right down here, you can see some

3:06more information

3:08about the specifics of my processor.

3:11What we care about here is the quantity of our CPU resources.

3:18And what we really care about with our CPU resources is not necessarily this

3:25base speed

3:26here or this clock speed.

3:28So we do have to make sure that that's not too low for basic virtualization.

3:34But any reasonable processor made within the last 10 years or so should be fine

3:41for our

3:41purposes right now.

3:43But what we do care about are our cores right here and our logical processors.

3:50I will get to that distinction in a moment.

3:52So why do we care about those two specifications specifically, pun not intended

3:58?

3:58Well, the reason is because virtualization is what we call a highly parallel

4:03ized application.

4:05Wow, say that five times fast.

4:07And that is just a whole lot of technology mumbo jumbo to say that virtual

4:13ization benefits

4:15from having a lot of cores.

4:18Now how much is a lot do we need 16 cores like I have here?

4:23Is this not even enough?

4:24Well, the answer is we don't need a whole lot at all, not for what we're doing

4:29today.

4:30Now the more VMs that you have inevitably, the more CPU resources that you're

4:35going to

4:35need to use and the more cores you're going to benefit from.

4:39But for right now, because we're just running the one or maybe even a handful

4:44down the line

4:45if you want to keep practicing, but we're just running Windows 11 virtual

4:49machines here.

4:51We don't need a whole lot of CPU resources.

4:54Honestly, if you have at least a quad core, which a lot of systems made within

4:59the last

4:59few years are going to have, you are perfectly good to go here.

5:03But the thing that I do want to point out right here is that when we look at

5:09our cores,

5:10that's not actually what we care about here, our core count on this CPU right

5:15now is 16.

5:17Our logical processor count on the CPU however is 32.

5:22So it's list number right here that we actually care about for virtualization.

5:28Now you might be asking why are these two numbers different?

5:32Now on some lower NCPUs, they might not actually be different because those

5:38lower NCPUs, they

5:40don't have something called hyper threading.

5:42That's the name on the Intel side and then AMD calls it simultaneous multi

5:47threading or

5:48SMT.

5:49Basically, what that means is when we look at a CPU core, so the individual

5:55processing

5:56unit inside of your CPU inside of your processor, that core is going to be

6:03split up into two

6:05what we call threads.

6:07And those threads are actually what does the processing.

6:11Now when we look at it from the host's perspective, from our main computer, the

6:16main computer

6:17can tell the difference between full two thread cores and an individual thread.

6:24However, here's the big thing.

6:26When we talk about a virtual CPU, so that's a CPU core that we're giving to a

6:31virtual

6:32machine, that virtual machine thinks that the threads are cores.

6:38So when we go into VMware and we say, hey, this virtual machine gets four cores

6:43, what

6:44we're really saying is that it gets four threads.

6:48And in the context of this CPU right now, this is a higher NCPU, it's a Ryzen 9

6:53processor.

6:53So it has, in this case, simultaneous multi threading.

6:57That means that each core has two threads.

7:00So when I say that I'm giving a virtual machine four cores, I'm really just

7:05giving it two

7:07of these actual cores, but the virtual machine thinks it's four because again,

7:12it can't tell

7:13the difference between a thread and a core.

7:16So that's enough of that right there.

7:17Let me clear off our board a little bit here so we can talk about the second

7:22thing that

7:22we care about.

7:23And really, this is going to be just this one line right here.

7:28I don't want to draw a box around it because it's so small.

7:31I block off the text.

7:32This says virtualization.

7:34And in my case, it says enabled.

7:37So why is this important?

7:39Well, in a previous video, you might remember that I said that a virtual

7:43machine basically

7:45just runs as an application from a 10,000 foot view.

7:50Yes, that is true.

7:51From the host's perspective, it uses resources like any other application.

7:57But when you get down really close and look at the details of how the CPU

8:02actually treats

8:03virtualization, it's not necessarily the same as any other application like

8:09your web browser.

8:10For example, in fact, there are specific features that have to be enabled on

8:16your CPU in order

8:17for your CPU to support running virtual machines.

8:20Now the specific name of the feature is going to depend on your processor

8:26vendor.

8:27So on Intel, this is going to be called VT dash X and VTT.

8:35They do slightly different things, but they're complimentary features.

8:38So you should enable them together when you can.

8:41And then on AMD, this is just going to be something called AMD.

8:47So if you see the text enabled right here, as you do here, you're good to go.

8:53If you see this able, that means that you can't run virtual machines on this

8:58system.

8:59But that doesn't have to be a thing that goes on forever.

9:04In fact, if it says disabled right there, what that usually means if you have a

9:09reasonably

9:10modern CPU is not that it can't run virtual machines is that these features

9:16right here

9:18are disabled.

9:19So what you have to do, and this is a moment where you should Google

9:23motherboard, fill

9:24in your motherboard, how to enable virtualization.

9:28And what you usually have to do is boot into your BIOS or UEFI firmware

9:34interface and find

9:36options that say virtualization and those are going to be the options that let

9:41you enable

9:42these features right here.

9:44And then once you enable them and you reboot into windows, usually 99% of the

9:49time that

9:50clears this message right up.

9:51So that's it for the CPU tab here.

9:55Trust me, the memory and the storage is a lot more straightforward.

9:59So we go over to our RAM here, really the adage and virtualization is that the

10:05more RAM

10:06the better.

10:07But that's not to say that we can't have enough RAM for our purpose.

10:12So do you need 128 gigs like I have here?

10:16Absolutely not.

10:18In fact, if you have eight gigs of RAM, 16 gigs of RAM, that is perfectly

10:24sufficient to

10:25run a handful of virtual machines like we're going to want to do here.

10:29And then the last thing we want to go ahead and take a look at is our storage.

10:34Now I have a number of disks here.

10:36I'm just going to go ahead and take a look at my C drive just because that's

10:40where we're

10:40actually going to go ahead and store the virtual machine in this example.

10:44And really we mainly care about capacity.

10:49We also care about these attributes here.

10:52So response time or latency and speed do play a consideration.

10:56Again, this is one of those things where as long as you're running on

11:00preferably an SSD

11:02or even a mechanical drive that's reasonably modern, that's reasonably

11:07functional, these

11:09should not be too much of a problem.

11:11So really the main thing that you want to focus on is capacity.

11:15Do you have enough storage space to contain your virtual machines?

11:19And really whether you have enough is going to come down to how much storage

11:24you give

11:25your virtual machine and that's something that we'll go ahead and take a look

11:29at in the

11:29next video.

11:30So that's all we need to do in Task Manager.

11:33If you're like, I'm good to go.

11:35My computer can run virtual machines.

11:37It meets all the conditions that we talked about.

11:40Then awesome.

11:41We're going to have a lot of fun.

11:43If your computer can't quite do it or if you're watching along on something

11:47that's not

11:49a desktop or a laptop computer like an iPad or some other kind of mobile device

11:53, that's

11:54okay as well.

11:55You're not going to be able to deploy a virtual machine and go along with me

11:59here as we do

12:00it.

12:01But you can still watch along and see how we're deploying the virtual machine

12:05here in this

12:06demo and get your exposure that way.

12:08So just Google for VMware workstation right here and it enter and that should

12:15bring you

12:16to hopefully what is an up-to-date link to get to the workstation page.

12:23So this right here is showing us the workstation pro page, but this is the paid

12:29version of

12:30the software.

12:31I'm going to go ahead and go and click the back arrow here and I'm going to

12:35open a list

12:36up to a new tab.

12:38But here's what I'm looking for.

12:40Workstation player.

12:41You can see the big letters download for free.

12:44So let's click on VMware workstation player and that's going to bring us to

12:49this page here

12:50with those big letters free free free.

12:53Now here's the important thing to keep in mind about these two products here.

12:59Workstation player works.

13:00Again, no pun intended, but workstation pro, if you're running a lot of virtual

13:07machines

13:08by online, $200 I think is the price.

13:11Yeah, $200 for workstation pro.

13:14If you're running a lot of virtual machines, there are some nice creature com

13:18forts here

13:19that pro has that player doesn't have, but don't feel compelled to buy pro.

13:25If you're just a casual virtualization user, workstation player is perfectly

13:30functional.

13:32And actually, if you're on the edge here, if we X this tab here and go back to

13:37the main

13:38page, you can see here there's actually a download trial button.

13:42So you can evaluate workstation pro.

13:45So if you want workstation player, that button is right here, we're going to go

13:50ahead and

13:50take a look at how to download the trial for workstation pro that way you can

13:55install

13:56it.

13:57So I'm going to click on this download trial button right here and go down and

14:01here's

14:01some buttons that you can download for your platform.

14:04So Windows or Linux.

14:06Now if you're on the Mac, you can run VMware too.

14:10It's just a different product called VMware fusion.

14:13We're not going to take a look at it in this video, obviously because I can't

14:16install it,

14:17but you can go ahead and Google VMware fusion if you're on the map.

14:22And a lot of this is going to be the same between workstation and fusion, but I

14:28'm on

14:28Windows.

14:29So I'm going to go ahead and click on download now.

14:32And that's going to allow me to download this to my local file system.

14:36As you can see, I've already downloaded this here.

14:40And so I'm going to click on cancel and once that's downloaded for you, you can

14:45just go

14:45ahead and run that executable file, install VMware workstation.

14:50It's a pretty simple process to go through basically just like any other

14:53application.

14:54So I'm not actually going to run the installer for VMware workstation because

15:00it's not going

15:01to let me go through the process since I already have ta ta VMware workstation

15:07pro 17 installed

15:09on the system.

15:10Now, as well as installing workstation pro, when you run the installer for work

15:15station

15:16pro, it also installs ta ta workstation player.

15:21And this is the utility that we're going to go ahead and take a look at in the

15:25next

15:25video.

15:26So we're going to go ahead and dive into creating a virtual machine in this

15:30interface.

15:31So I'll catch you over there in the meantime, I'll just inform it for you and I

15:35'd like

15:35to thank you for viewing.

0:00So in the previous video, we took a look at how to make sure that our computer

0:05was actually

0:06prepared to run virtual machines by first making sure that it had the

0:12specifications and the grunt and horsepower

0:15to actually run virtual machines and then we scoured around the VMware's

0:21website to find the

0:23download for VMware workstation, which is the software that we're actually

0:28going to be using on our computer, on our

0:30Windows-based computer that's important to keep in mind to run virtual machines

0:35.

0:35Well, here in this video, we're gonna go ahead and springboard off of where we

0:40left off there to

0:42actually create a virtual machine inside of workstation player running Windows

0:4711. Let's go.

0:48So we're back where we left off in our web browser here from the last video

0:53because there I

0:55actually forgot to mention a very important step. So we'll mention it now. You

1:01remember how in the intro of the series,

1:04I mentioned that when I was starting out with virtual

1:07virtualization that I didn't know you have to have an operating system

1:11installed disk. Well, that raises an important question.

1:15The operating system doesn't install itself. You need to provide an operating

1:20system disk and ISO file usually

1:22for that installation to happen. And so the question is where are we getting

1:28that install disk?

1:29Now the answer to that question depends on what operating system you're using.

1:34It was a lot harder in 2012, especially for Windows from Microsoft to get the

1:42ISO file.

1:43But now Microsoft just makes it available to anyone.

1:46So what we're gonna do is open up a new tab here and we're just gonna Google

1:53download Windows 11. This feels like it's shady and not legit, but I guarantee

1:59you,

2:00let's hit enter here. The first entry right here is from Microsoft.

2:05So let's click on this link here and

2:08scroll down and you do not know what I would have done in

2:132012 to have lists right here like that. So what we're gonna do here is click

2:20on select download.

2:22There's only one option, download now and select our language.

2:27So English US from that and here's our 64 bit download.

2:32So if we download that, here's our ISO file. Let's go ahead and save that and

2:36just like that, you have the installation media for Windows 11.

2:42It continues to blow my mind every time I press that button.

2:48So you can see right here that our download has finished.

2:52I can open up our folder location and you can see that ISO file right here in

2:58this folder right under our

3:00workstation installer executable from the previous video.

3:04So we've got all of the building blocks out of the way.

3:08Now it's time for what might be your very first virtual machine. Isn't this

3:13exciting?

3:14So I'm gonna go ahead and drag this folder out of the way here and put it in

3:20its place.

3:21The workstation 17 player window.

3:24So from here, what we do is we create a new virtual machine and there's a

3:31couple of options here.

3:33So one is you can use the installer disk.

3:37Now when they say disk, the reason that this is grayed out right here and it's

3:42probably gonna be grayed out for you as well

3:45is because installer disk refers to a physical CD or DVD. Yeah, you remember

3:52those.

3:52So if you had a physical CD that you can install the operating system from and

3:59an optical drive to put it in,

4:01then this would let you select the optical drive that you want VMware to read

4:07from.

4:08But in this case, we have a disk image file or ISO.

4:13So right here, we could put the ISO file in, but then it's gonna take us

4:19through something called the EZ install,

4:21which is a version of something called unattended deployment.

4:26So the idea is if you wanted to, you could put your ISO file right here,

4:32specify things like your product key,

4:34and then let VMware take care of the installation for you.

4:38I've never been a big fan of EZ install, so I always just go with I will

4:44install the operating system later

4:46and then handle it myself.

4:48Just know that that option is right there for you.

4:51So what we're gonna do here is click on next and it's gonna ask us what

4:57operating system we want to use.

5:00So if it doesn't select Windows 11 by default, that's okay.

5:04Just grow up to the very top right here and click on Windows 11 and we'll click

5:10on next.

5:11It's gonna ask us for the name of the virtual machine.

5:14So just for giggles, I'm gonna change this to CBT nuggets and then demo.

5:21So you can have spaces in this name if you want, because what the name of the

5:27virtual machine is really doing

5:29is it's naming a folder in the location on your physical hard drive or SSD

5:37where the VM is going to be stored.

5:40So by default, that's going to be in your user directory in your documents

5:46folder and then a folder called virtual machine.

5:49We'll take a look at that folder in a moment after we create this virtual

5:53machine.

5:54But with that, let's go ahead and continue and before I do actually, I should

5:59probably type W11 here

6:01just so we know what operating system this is running and then we'll click on

6:06next.

6:06And here is a special step for Windows 11.

6:10If you don't run Windows 11, if you choose to run Windows 10 or something else

6:16like that,

6:17you probably won't need to have this step right here.

6:20But we're running Windows 11 and Windows 11 and presumably successive additions

6:26in the future

6:27are going to have this requirement of a trusted platform module.

6:32So to be clear, this does nothing to encrypt the rest of the data on your host.

6:38Though we have a couple of options here.

6:42The default option is going to be to only encrypt the files that you need to

6:48support this trusted platform module.

6:51So this is the option that we're going to go ahead and go with.

6:55But if you want to be more secure, you can also choose to encrypt every file

7:01that's associated with this virtual machine.

7:04So again, that's not going to be any other data on your drive, just the files

7:09for this VM.

7:10So once you've got that option selected, we need to provide a password.

7:16Now word of caution, this password is going to protect the encryption keys that

7:22are stored on the TPM long story short.

7:26If you don't have the password, you cannot access those encryption keys, which

7:31means that you can't decrypt the data to access the virtual machine.

7:35So too long didn't read or didn't listen in this case, do not lose this

7:39password.

7:40So with the importance of this password in mind, we're going to pick the four

7:46knocks of passwords, capital P, a S S W O R D.

7:52Hey, it has a capital P. That means it's secure, right?

7:56And then we will confirm the password. So to be clear, if you're actually doing

8:08this for any important virtual machines, please, I beg you, don't use password

8:09for your password.

8:10Now, it'll also give you the option by default to remember the password in the

8:16Windows credential manager.

8:19In this case, I'm actually going to go ahead and deselect that you should keep

8:24it in there.

8:25If you plan to use this virtual machine long term, you can see that because we

8:31don't have remember the password selected, it'll say if you forget the password

8:36, your data will be lost in big letters.

8:40So it is giving you fair warning here, but because I'm just going to go ahead

8:46and destroy this virtual machine, pretty much right after I'm done recording

8:52this video, I'm fine with not having to deal with remembering the password.

8:57So I'm just going to go ahead and click OK now. It is important to note that if

9:09you are selecting this option or rather not selecting it with an actual long

9:10term virtual machine, you should have some plan to store the password in

9:15something like a password manager.

9:18That way, you don't have to rely on your own memory to remember that password,

9:23but with that out of the way, let's go ahead and continue on.

9:27And here's where we select how much storage we want to allocate to this virtual

9:33machine.

9:35So a couple of things. First, I always choose to store the virtual disk as a

9:41single file. So here it says that if you split the disk, it makes it easier to

9:47move the virtual machine.

9:49But if you have a larger disk, as it also says here, it may reduce performance.

9:55So I always choose to just store the virtual disk as a single file.

10:00You can split it if you want.

10:02I just don't generally recommend.

10:04And I'm fine with the 64 gigabyte capacity right here.

10:10If you want more, go ahead and give it just keep in mind that you actually have

10:15to have the physical storage capacity to back it up.

10:19So with that set, how you like it, let's go ahead and click on next and here's

10:24the finished screen.

10:25So here's the summary.

10:27We're naming this CBT Nuggets demo W 11.

10:30We're storing it in our documents folder.

10:33This is going to be a workstation 17 version virtual machine.

10:38It's running Windows 11.

10:40We've given it a 64 gigabyte hard drive and we've given it four gigabytes of

10:46memory as well as two CPU cores.

10:48Now, if there's anything that you don't like on the screen, for example, maybe

10:54you want to change the amount of RAM it has or maybe you want to change the

11:00amount of CPU cores that it has.

11:03There's a couple of ways that we can do that.

11:05So the first way is right here.

11:08We can click on customize hardware and this is going to give us this screen

11:15where we can change the virtual machines settings.

11:18I'm going to go ahead and close that out actually and click on finished to

11:23actually create the virtual machine.

11:26And in a moment, it's right there.

11:28Now, if you want to change the virtual machine settings after the fact, there's

11:34a couple of ways you can do that.

11:36The first way is to click on this edit virtual machine settings link right here

11:42.

11:42That takes us to the same screen that we saw earlier or if I click cancel right

11:48here, the other way to get to it is going to be to click the virtual machine

11:53right here to make it active.

11:55So make sure this is blue right here.

11:58Click on player, click on manage, click on virtual machine settings.

12:03You can see side note.

12:04There's a shortcut you can use.

12:06That's a third way.

12:07But if you click right here, that brings us to once again, the exact same

12:11screen that we saw earlier.

12:13So now that we're here, let's say we want to change the amount of RAM that we

12:19're making available to this virtual machine.

12:22Well, all we have to do is use our slider here.

12:25So let's say that we want to go up to eight gigabytes so we can slide up there.

12:31And once it hits 8192 megabytes, we know that we're at eight gigabytes.

12:36Alternatively, you can also just directly type in this box.

12:40So if you want to do eight gigabytes, actually, let's do four gigabytes here.

12:45You can see that once we enter right here, sorry, edit virtual machine settings

12:50.

12:50You can see that it went back down to four gigabytes.

12:53And then we can change this to 8192.

12:57You can see here that the slider is now back at eight gigabytes.

13:01If we go down to processors right here, you'll see that we have number of

13:06processor course.

13:07So remember, this is the number of threads, not the number of cores as it's

13:13really saying here.

13:14So this is actually a single processor core.

13:18So if I want to give it two processor cores, I'm going to give it four logical

13:22processors.

13:24Don't worry about either of these two check marks.

13:26These are more advanced features that we don't need right now.

13:29Now, if we hop on over to the heart this tab, here's some information about the

13:35heart this capacity.

13:37There's not much that we really need to do here other than to look at how much

13:43size it's actually taking up.

13:45Now, you might be saying eight megabytes.

13:48Wait, I gave it 64 gigabytes.

13:50And the reason is that by default, this is using something called thin

13:56provision.

13:57And what that means is that we gave it 64 gigabytes of storage to work with,

14:03but it's not going to take up 64 gigabytes on your actual file system in media.

14:08It's only going to take up that space as you start to use the virtual machine

14:14and put stuff onto its storage.

14:16Moving on down here in the CD DVD section, here's where we're going to want to

14:22insert

14:23that ISO image file that we downloaded from Microsoft's website right over here

14:28.

14:28So click on this radio button, click on browse.

14:32And right here, it's going to by default go to our virtual machine folder.

14:37So hot, I was actually going to show you separately.

14:40But here, here you can see, let's go ahead and click on all files.

14:45You can see what's in this folder right here.

14:48So we have a bunch of files.

14:50I'm not going to go into detail about what these files do.

14:54Just know that they all have to do with this virtual machine.

14:57So that wasn't unexpected detour.

15:00Let's go ahead and continue on to find our ISO file.

15:04So in this case, it's on my G drive and it's right here video demo folder and

15:11right here,

15:12Windows 11.

15:13So I'm going to click that and click on open and here you can see that now we

15:18're using this ISO file,

15:20which is great.

15:21So the other thing we need to make sure is that this checkbox right here,

15:25connect power on is checked when the virtual machine is off,

15:30this button right here is going to be grayed out because it's not on.

15:35And so once the virtual machine actually turns on,

15:39this radio button connected right here is going to first not be grayed out.

15:44And second, because we've checked the box to connect the optical drive at power

15:51on,

15:51it's going to be checked at power.

15:53So going on down the last thing that we really have to consider is the network

15:59adapter.

15:59And specifically, it's going to be the mode of our network connection.

16:05So there's two main ones that you should consider.

16:09The first is going to be a net and that's the default option.

16:15This works if the only thing that you care about is going out from your virtual

16:21machine

16:21to the outside world, like to the internet, for example.

16:25But if you need the network to be able to access the virtual machine directly

16:31without the virtual machine reaching out first,

16:34that's where you would use the bridge option right here.

16:38The difference in a nutshell is that with bridge,

16:41the virtual machine looks like any other computer on the network to other

16:47devices on that network.

16:49But with now, the other devices on the network never know that there's a

16:54virtual machine.

16:55Because to them, the traffic from the virtual machine looks like it's coming

17:01from list computers IP address.

17:04So the actual physical hosts IP address.

17:07So just for this demo to keep it simple, I'm going to go ahead and stick with

17:12now.

17:12So no changes need to be made.

17:15The connect at power on is good to go.

17:17So I'm going to click on OK to save my changes.

17:21So now that we have all of our virtual machine settings all dialed in where we

17:27want them to be,

17:28in the next video, we're going to go ahead and actually start it up,

17:32boot it up and install Windows and make sure that everything is working.

17:37So I'll catch you over in the next video where we do that.

17:40In the meantime, this is informative for you and I'd like to thank you for

17:44viewing.

0:00So in the previous video, we created our virtual machine in VMware Workstation

0:07Player,

0:07and we mounted our Windows 11 installation media.

0:11And so now, all that's left to do is cross our fingers, if I can cross that

0:16finger right there,

0:17and pray that we can install Windows 11 on this virtual machine.

0:22Let's see if what we did actually work.

0:24So I've went ahead and maximized the Workstation Player window so that we can

0:31get a better view here.

0:32And what we're going to do is click right here to play virtual machine.

0:38And with this virtual machine selected, that's going to go ahead and boot up

0:43this virtual machine.

0:44And hopefully it's going to boot to our Windows 11 installation.

0:49So I'm going to click on play virtual machine and watch the magic happen.

0:54We can't watch too long though because with Windows, it's going to ask us to

0:59press any key

1:00to boot from the CD DVD.

1:02And I got a little excited there because it came a little faster than I

1:06expected.

1:07But now you can see that we're actually booting into Windows and there we are,

1:13the Windows setup.

1:15So this Windows installation, in fact I'm going to go through it right now as I

1:20'm talking,

1:21it thinks that we are running on a physical system.

1:24So installing the operating system is no different than if you popped the

1:30Windows

1:31installation into a physical computer and went through this exact same process.

1:36Select the addition, click next, agree to the license terms, click next, custom

1:41mode,

1:41click next to install it on the only drive that we have.

1:45And this is not going to do anything to the files that are actually on our

1:50system

1:51because it's just installing Windows onto that virtual drive.

1:56And here we are.

1:57So installing Windows just like any other installation of Windows,

2:03except now we can drag this window out of the way.

2:06And you can see here's my actual Windows 11 system.

2:11So I'm running Windows 11 as a window, no pun intended,

2:16inside of my real hosts Windows 11 environment.

2:21So now you can see that the Windows installation is proceeding,

2:26just like it does on a regular computer.

2:29And this might actually take a while for me because the ISO image that we're

2:35using

2:36is on a different drive than the VM is actually stored on.

2:41So it has to go between two drives.

2:43That might take a little while depending on the hardware that you have

2:48that you're running virtual machines on, it might take a few minutes to get the

2:53installation here.

2:54So fortunately with the power of video editing,

2:57I have the power to not bore you to death.

3:00And all righty.

3:02So now we're on the Windows desktop of our CBT Nuggets demo Windows 11 virtual

3:10machine.

3:10So just to prove that this is the virtual machines desktop that we're looking

3:16at,

3:16I'm going to drag this out of the way.

3:19So here's my host Windows environment.

3:22And here's the Windows environment of our virtual machine.

3:25And in hindsight, I should have made sure beforehand that the ISO image for the

3:33Windows installation,

3:35as well as the virtual machine files were on the same drive because boy did

3:42that take a while.

3:43I got through no live two episodes of a TV show I'm going through before that

3:49finished.

3:49Anyway, my life story aside, there's one last thing that I want to do here.

3:56And it has to do with less wonky screen resolution.

4:01So I've maximized the VMware window and the screen resolution here is really,

4:09really small.

4:10And the reason for that is because the operating system that's running in here,

4:16remember, this Windows 11 guest or virtual machine right here doesn't know

4:22about VMware at all.

4:24So it doesn't know that we've maximized the window here.

4:28So the way that we're going to fix that is by installing a program on this

4:34virtual machine

4:36called VMware tools, what that's going to do is it's going to allow our virtual

4:42machine here

4:43and the actual VMware hypervisor to communicate.

4:47And that's going to allow us to do things like fix the screen resolution issue

4:53that I just mentioned,

4:55because a VM with VMware tools installed can automatically adjust its screen

5:01resolution

5:02to match the size of the VMware window.

5:05Some of the other things that it can do include shared folders.

5:09So the host file system can be exposed to the virtual machine so that the

5:16virtual machine

5:17can copy files back and forth from the host's actual file system.

5:23And there's a bunch of other creature comforts.

5:26Basically, it comes down to this.

5:28If the operating system that you're running in your virtual machine supports

5:33VMware tools,

5:34which in this case, Windows does, there's basically no disadvantage to

5:39installing VMware

5:40tools. So we're going to go ahead and do that real quick.

5:42So the process for that is actually really simple.

5:47So what I'm going to do here is firstly control alt. So that key combination

5:53releases my cursor

5:55from the virtual machine and back to controlling the actual host's operating

6:01system.

6:02So what I'm going to do is go up here, click on this player menu, go to manage

6:08and click on

6:09install VMware tools. So after clicking that button, you can see that this

6:14autoplay window

6:15came up and it actually just disappeared here. What it did is it mounted an ISO

6:21image in the

6:22optical drive of this virtual machine with the actual installer that we need to

6:28install VMware

6:29tools. So the important thing to keep in mind here is that whatever CV or DVD

6:34was in there

6:35previously, so as you might remember, in our case, it was the Windows

6:39installation ISO,

6:41whatever was in there, it's going to eject it and then put in its place the

6:45VMware tools installer

6:47ISO. So with the autoplay window gone, all we have to do to access it is go to

6:53our file

6:54explorer here, go to the DVD drive, which as you can see is VMware tools. And

7:01we are going to run

7:02the setup 64 for 64 bit installation. Click on yes for the UAC. And you can see

7:09here that the

7:09installer is launching. There we go. So the VMware tools setup is here. So we

7:15're going to click

7:16through next and next and install. So the setup wizard has just completed. It

7:22was very fast,

7:24like 30 seconds. So when we click finish now, it's going to ask us to reboot

7:29because it installed

7:30a bunch of new drivers that have to take effect. So we'll click on yes to

7:34reboot the system.

7:35And while we're rebooting, it decided that now seems like a perfect time to

7:42apply Windows updates.

7:44Thanks, Windows. We'll be back when this is all done and dealt with. All right.

7:49So we are back

7:50here on the Windows login screen after a quick little reboot. So I'm just going

7:55to click here,

7:57type in our super secure password. I'm sure you can guess what the password is.

8:03All righty,

8:03let's go ahead and log it. So now we're back on the desktop here on our virtual

8:09machine. And

8:10let me go ahead and expand the tray here. So you can see here that VMware tools

8:16is installed and

8:17running. We can tell that because the icon for VMware tools is in our system

8:23tray here. It doesn't

8:24seem to be adjusting our screen resolution. Let me try something real quick.

8:29Let me try doing lists

8:30to readjust the window. And there we go. It just needed a little kick. So

8:36congratulations. If you've

8:38made it this far in your own environment, that means that you have a

8:42functioning Windows 11 virtual

8:45machine. So before we go on, give yourself a quick pat on the back. Now to

8:50verify that this virtual

8:52machine is actually set up the way that we want it to be set up, let's take a

8:57look at the resources

8:58that it has in task manager. Now normally you would control delete to get to

9:06task manager.

9:07But you don't want to do control delete on your actual keyboard because there

9:12is a chance that

9:13your host will intercept that control delete and give you the control delete

9:19for your actual host

9:20and not send it on to your virtual machine. So the way if you want to be safe

9:25that you should do a

9:26control delete in a virtual machine is a list button right here. So it's the

9:32button that's

9:32immediately to the right of the pause button here. And if we hover over it, you

9:38'll see what it does.

9:40It sends a control delete to the virtual machine. So if we go ahead and press

9:45this right now,

9:46it simulates a control delete keystroke inside of the VM. So from here, let's

9:52go ahead and click

9:53on task manager to open that up. And ooh, new task manager interface. I think

9:59this is my first time

10:00seeing the new interface. Anyway, let's go ahead and go to performance here to

10:05check out our

10:05specifications. We will maximize the task manager window. And I'm not sure if

10:10you can see that,

10:12but it says that our virtual processor count is two. If you remember, if I go

10:17here to player

10:19and manage and virtual machine setting, we gave this for processor cores. But

10:25do keep in mind,

10:26our socket count is two. So really, it's two CPUs that's thinking of it as, and

10:33two times two is

10:35four. So it does have the correct number of virtual CPU cores assigned to it.

10:41It just splits it

10:42across two different CPUs from the virtual machine's perspective. And if we hop

10:47on over to memory

10:49here, we'll see that this is a gigabytes of RAM, which is let's open back our

10:55virtual machine settings,

10:57what we saw earlier here, memory, eight gigabytes. And while we're here, we'll

11:03check out two things

11:04about our storage, the first being that it's NVMe. So it's being presented to

11:10the virtual machine

11:12as an SSD. And of course, our maximum capacity being 64 gigabytes. So let's

11:18close out of this

11:19window again, and hop on to storage here, we'll see that this is an SSD right

11:25down here. That's

11:27where it says type SSD. And our capacity is 64 gigabytes. The other way that we

11:34can verify our

11:35capacity is to go to file explorer, and this PC. And if we look at our C drive

11:42right there,

11:43you'll see 62.2 gigabytes is our total size. There's some file system overhead

11:48there. So it's

11:50basically 64 gigabytes. And then the last thing that we're going to want to

11:54test here is our network

11:56connectivity. So if you remember, I configured this using the NAT option, which

12:03means that when it

12:04goes from the VM to the outside world, it's going to be using the IP address of

12:11my physical host.

12:12So if I go ahead and open up Microsoft Edge here, my physical computer has

12:18access to the internet.

12:20So let's go ahead and enter Google.com. And you'll see that from this virtual

12:27machine. Again,

12:28here's the proof virtual machine right here. And our host environment right

12:33here from inside our

12:35virtual machine, we have access to Google, we have access to the internet.

12:39Everything is working

12:41splendidly. So that's how simple deploying a virtual machine can be. Heck, you

12:48just did it

12:49right now. Or at the very least, you followed along with me as we did it

12:53together. In the meantime,

12:55I'm Elle, this is informative for you,

12:57and I'd like to thank you for viewing.

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