Hello VMware community,
I have a brand new physical host with 64GB RAM running workstation player 12.1.0; I successfully moved and loaded my .vmdk files from my old host, but when I check settings>memory of my windows server x64 VM instance, I run into my first issue: the maximum memory that I can allocate is 32GB (I'd like to push this close to 50+GB on occasion). With player 12.1, I'm supposed to get a technical max of 64GB if the host can support it [link here], which it can. I suspect (?) its because the version of this VM instance is workstation 6.5-7.x virtual machine. Here's my second issue: I have no way of updating this 6.5-7.x version... according to documentation [link here] I should be simply able to find a magic "UpgradeorChangeVersion"button, but this feature has eluded me. Two further notes that may or may not be helpful: 1) settings>options>vmware tools is set to update automatically; the version of the tools on the VM instance is: 10.0.5 2) I don't recall, but I may have installed workstation player 12.1.0 just before I added two additional 16GB sticks to total 64GB (it was a new build; its a multi-night blur). Although the host recognizes the 64GB of RAM, is it possible that player set a static 32GB RAM threshold based on the host's RAM at the time?
My goal is to increase the RAM past 32GB, but I would also like to upgrade/update the VM instance. I believe I'll need to do both. If you could offer assistance, I would appreciate it.
Thanks, Jason