Netware 6.5 on VMware

Netware 6.5 on VMware is not new thing. But you will find that is not allowed to have more than 1 Vcpu per VM by default. Actually there is ways to overcome this as you normally can't fo it through virtual center. VMware workstation allow you to change the number of Vcpu as usual. But, on ESX server is different. You may need to log in to the web access to specify host or virtual center, and power off the virtual machine. On the web console, you can edit the number or Virtual CPU from 1 to 2 or 4. Then you power up the VM again, and now you will able to see the extra Vcpu you added just now. Go back to the virtual center, you should able to see the extra cpu too. VMware not recommend to have more than 1 Vcpu per VM for netware as it has some performance impact on host level and is proven during my personal test on it. The CPU utilization on host will be very high consistantly but it only consume 5% from the VM level.