Create a customized Virtual Machine in 13 easy steps …

Step 1) Select the icon or from keyboard press Ctrl + N

OR right click on your host and select “New Virtual Machine…”

Step 2) A wizard will open, select “Custom” and click next

Step 3) Give  your VM a name and then click next..

Step 4) Select a datastore for your VM and click next…

Step 5)  Select Virtual Machine Version 8 and click next

Step 6) Select Number of virtual sockets and cores per virtual sockets for your VM and click next..

Step 7) Select the amount of RAM that you want to provision for your VM…

Step 8) Select the number of Virtual NIC’s, the Network you want to connect your Virtual NIC and the type of adaptor and click next…

Step 9) Do not make any changes to the type of scsi adapter click next

Step 10) Select “Create new Virtual Disk” and click next

Step 11) Select the amount of HDD you want to provision and also the disk provisioning  (generally I make it thin to use the HDD to max.” click next….

Step 12) Click Next..  (Do not change the disk node, If you select Independent then in that case you’ll not able to take snapshot of this hard disk)

Step 13) Click Finish and it’s done J

Here is your customized VM...