Creating new VMWare Workstation Team in 5 minutes

Start VMWare Workstation 6 ; go to File –> New and click Team or CRTL-N

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Click Next

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Enter the name of your VMWare team. For example WindowsServer2003.lan and put the files on a disk drive not used by the operating system. Putting the team on another disk spindle will improve the performance of the team.

Before I click next I went back to drive E:\ and copied a VMWare image which I stored in my template directory.

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I copied this image from E:\VirtualOS\VMWare to E:\WindowsServer2003.lan directory and renamed the folder to MasterBuild.

Than go back to VMWare Workstation and click next.

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Click next

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Click Add and choose to add an existing virtual machine; locate the directory on disk drive and click the vmx file open. As show above in my example with WindowsServer2003Ent; click next.

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I choose to add a new LAN segment. I want to exclude any traffic from the virtual team into the physical LAN. Click next

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Click Add and click Next

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By default the Bridged is selected; check the LAN1 for the Windows Server 2003 and click finish.

The VMWare Workstation team has been created.

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