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Please check this link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsmp_best_practices.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsmp_best_practices.pdf</a><br />
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Good luck!<br />

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Please check this link:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsmp_best_practices.pdf [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsmp_best_practices.pdf]

Good luck!


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This was just what I was looking for, plus after reading I think I need to do more research as to if adding the additional CPU is something I really need anyway. &nbsp;Thanks so much for the quick help.
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This was just what I was looking for, plus after reading I think I need to do more research as to if adding the additional CPU is something I really need anyway.  Thanks so much for the quick help.

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In a VMware ESXi virtual machine there is warning by the box where you can change the number of processors a VM has. &nbsp;The warning states that it can make your system unstable if this is done after the guest OS is installed.<br />
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Does anyone have any experience with this and if there would be issues increasing the count from 1 to 2 on a VM running Windows 2003 Server?
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In a VMware ESXi virtual machine there is warning by the box where you can change the number of processors a VM has.  The warning states that it can make your system unstable if this is done after the guest OS is installed.

Does anyone have any experience with this and if there would be issues increasing the count from 1 to 2 on a VM running Windows 2003 Server?

Any issues with changing number of processors on ESXi

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.