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■ Availability This option is for virtual machines that should be placed on highly
available host clusters.
■ Firmware

Allows you to configure VM startup order as shown in Figure 4-43.

FIGURE 4-43 Firmware

■ CPU Priority Allows you to configure the priority for the VM when the host is al-
locating CPU resources.
■ Virtual NUMA Allows you to configure the VM to span hardware NUMA nodes.
■ Memory Weight Allows you to configure how the VM is allocated memory when
memory utilization on the virtualization host is high.

MORE INFO HARDWARE PROFILES

You can learn more about hardware profiles at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
hh427289.aspx .

Creating guest operating system proiles
Guest operating system profiles allow you to configure guest operating system settings that
will automatically be applied to the virtual machine. Depending on the guest OS you are con-
figuring the profile for, this can include the local administrator account password, what roles
and features are installed, domain join information, and computer name. You can configure a
guest OS profile for Windows or Linux operating systems. Using a guest OS profile saves you
having to perform these setup steps manually when deploying a virtual machine.