

So I'm going to create a new folder called the VMX. And so step one, if I'm going to be working with and modifying this VMX file, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to grab it, and I'm going to put it in a different folder. So I'm just going to go ahead and show the folder where that file is. And here you can see the file that was downloaded, DemoVM.vmx. And I'm going to download this VMX file to my computer from the datastore. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to find the VMX file for DemoVM. And here are all of the files for this DemoVM virtual machine. And then I'm going to go to my datastore. And I'm not actually deleting the virtual machine. Okay, so I'm going to right-click the VM, and I'm going to remove it from inventory.

And actually, before I do that, I'm just going to make a quick note that this VM is stored in my large-shared datastore. So I'll right-click the VM, and I'll remove it from inventory. And once the virtual machine is successfully shut down, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to remove the virtual machine from inventory so that it's not registered to any of my ESXi hosts. So I'm going to shut down my VM called DemoVM. Now before I can modify the VMX file, I need to shut down one of these virtual machines. And you can see I've got some virtual machines that I've already set up, and I have running. And so here you can see, I'm at the home screen of the vSphere Client in vSphere 7, and I'm going to click on hosts and clusters here. In this video, I'll demonstrate how to modify the VMX file for a virtual machine.
