Workstation User’s Manual
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Disk Capacity
Thewizardpromptsyoutosetasizebetween0.1GBand950GBforavirtualdisk.
On Windowshosts,thePocketACEsizecalculatorcontrolcanhelpdeterminethedisk
sizeforanACEinstancethatfitsonaportabledevice.
SelecttheoptionSplitvirtualdiskinto2GBfilesifyourvi
rtualdiskisst
oredonafile
systemthatdoesnotsupportfileslargerthan2GB.
Forcustomconfigurations,youarealsogiventheoptionAllocatealldiskspacenow.
VMwarerecommendsthatyouallowthedisktogrow.Allocatingalldiskspacenow
givessomewhatbetterperformance,butitisatime‐cons
umingoperation.Alsoit
requiresasmuchphysicaldiskspaceasyouspecifyforthevirtualdisk.Ifyouallocate
allthediskspacenow,youcannotusetheshrinkdiskfeaturelater.
Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only
ThePocketACEfeatureallowsyoutostoreACEinstancesonportabledevicessuchas
USBkeys(flashmemorydrives),AppleiPodmobiledigitaldevices,andportablehard
drives.ACEusersattachtheseportabledevicestox86hostcomputersandruntheir
ACEinstanceswithVMwarePlayer.
OntheSpecifyDiskCapacitypa
geoftheNewVirtualMachinewizard,youcanusethe
PocketACEsizecalculatorbuttontodeterminewhatnumbertouseintheDisksize
textbox.Disksizerefersonlytothesizeofthevirtualharddisk.Ifyouplantocreate
PocketACEs,youmustalsocons
idertheamountofdiskspacerequiredformemory,
installers,andotherfilesrelatedtovirtualmachineoverhead.
SelecttheFastsynchronizecachecheckboxtoreservespaceforwritingchangesfrom
thePocketACEcacheonthehost.Havingthisspaceavailablereducesthetimeittakes
tosynchronizefileswiththeho
st.
TodeterminewhatnumbertoenterintheVirtualharddisksizetextboxofthe
calculator,youneedtoknowhowmuchdiskspaceisavailableonthedevice.Plugthe
USBdeviceintoyourhostcomputerandusetheMyComputeritemtodisplayits
properti
es.Thisnumbercannotbe lessthantheamo
untshownforSpacerequiredon
USBdeviceinthecalculator.IfnecessaryreducethenumberintheVirtualharddisk
sizetextboxuntiltheamountoftotalspacerequirediscorrectforthedevice.
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