You can configure a virtual machine to have up to 128 virtual CPUs. The number of licensed CPUs on the host, the number of CPUs that the guest operating system supports, and the virtual machine hardware version determine the number of virtual CPUs that you can add.
VMware Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP) enables a single virtual machine to use multiple physical processors simultaneously. You must have Virtual SMP to power on multiprocessor virtual machines.
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Select the memory for the virtual machine.