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Disk Capacity

Thewizardpromptsyoutosetasizebetween0.1GBand950GBforavirtualdisk.

On Windowshosts,thePocketACEsizecalculatorcontrolcanhelpdeterminethedisk

sizeforanACEinstancethatfitsonaportabledevice.

SelecttheoptionSplitvirtualdiskinto2GBfilesifyourvi

rtualdiskisst

oredonafile

systemthatdoesnotsupportfileslargerthan2GB.

Forcustomconfigurations,youarealsogiventheoptionAllocatealldiskspacenow.

VMwarerecommendsthatyouallowthedisktogrow.Allocatingalldiskspacenow

givessomewhatbetterperformance,butitisatime‐cons

umingoperation.Alsoit

requiresasmuchphysicaldiskspaceasyouspecifyforthevirtualdisk.Ifyouallocate

allthediskspacenow,youcannotusetheshrinkdiskfeaturelater.

Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only

ThePocketACEfeatureallowsyoutostoreACEinstancesonportabledevicessuchas

USBkeys(flashmemorydrives),AppleiPodmobiledigitaldevices,andportablehard

drives.ACEusersattachtheseportabledevicestox86hostcomputersandruntheir

ACEinstanceswithVMwarePlayer.

OntheSpecifyDiskCapacitypa

geoftheNewVirtualMachinewizard,youcanusethe

PocketACEsizecalculatorbuttontodeterminewhatnumbertouseintheDisksize

textbox.Disksizerefersonlytothesizeofthevirtualharddisk.Ifyouplantocreate

PocketACEs,youmustalsocons

idertheamountofdiskspacerequiredformemory,

installers,andotherfilesrelatedtovirtualmachineoverhead.

SelecttheFastsynchronizecachecheckboxtoreservespaceforwritingchangesfrom 

thePocketACEcacheonthehost.Havingthisspaceavailablereducesthetimeittakes

tosynchronizefileswiththeho

st.

TodeterminewhatnumbertoenterintheVirtualharddisksizetextboxofthe

calculator,youneedtoknowhowmuchdiskspaceisavailableonthedevice.Plugthe

USBdeviceintoyourhostcomputerandusetheMyComputeritemtodisplayits

properti

es.Thisnumbercannotbe lessthantheamo

untshownforSpacerequiredon

USBdeviceinthecalculator.IfnecessaryreducethenumberintheVirtualharddisk

sizetextboxuntiltheamountoftotalspacerequirediscorrectforthedevice.

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