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To review and modify basic information about a virtual machine, or to access the configuration file directly, click the Options tab. The Options page appears.

The Options page shows standard virtual machine information:

• Display Name — identifies the virtual machine in a more descriptive way.
• Guest Operating System — the guest operating system installed on the virtual disk.
• Suspend File Location — the location of the suspended state file (a VMFS volume); this file is created when you suspend a virtual machine and contains the information about the virtual machine's state at the time at which it was suspended. ESX Server automatically adds a suffix to the name of the suspended state file to ensure that one virtual machine does not overwrite the suspended state file of another.

  Note: Unlike earlier versions of ESX Server, the suspended state file can only reside on a VMFS volume; it cannot be located in the directory with the virtual machine's configuration file in the service console.

• Enable Logging — whether logging is enabled.
• Run with Debugging Information — whether the virtual machine is running with debugging information, which is useful to have enabled when you are experiencing problems with this virtual machine, as you can provide this information to VMware support to help troubleshoot any problems you are experiencing.
• System Startup Options — the startup options for this virtual machine when the server starts.
• System Shutdown Options — the shutdown options for this virtual machine when the server shuts down.

  To change the startup and shutdown options, see Setting Startup and Shutdown Options for a Virtual Machine. To change any other options, see Changing Configuration Options.

  Under Verbose Options, you can enter and modify configuration file entries by hand. See Modifying the Configuration File Directly (Advanced Users Only).