Users Guide

Working With Virtual Machines

The Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin provides the ability to provision virtual machines and recover

virtual machine data from a Replay.

The following options are available for provisioning virtual machines:

• Create a virtual machine

• Clone a virtual machine by creating a thin copy of a virtual machine

Creating Virtual Machines

The vSphere Web Client Plugin allows you to provision (create) virtual machines using Dell storage.

NOTE: When the Provision Virtual Machine wizard is launched from a VM template and the template

is backed by a VMFS datastore, the Clone VM option is disabled and only the Create VM option

remains enabled. The Clone function is supported only for VMs or templates backed by NFS

datastores.

Deploy Virtual Machines to an Existing VMFS or NFS Datastore

Use the Provision Virtual Machines wizard to create one or more virtual machines to an existing VMFS or

NFS datastore.

Prerequisites

This option assumes that you have already created a virtual machine template from which to deploy new

virtual machines. For information about creating or updating a virtual machine template, refer to the

vSphere help topics on virtual machine templates.

Steps

1. Select an object that can be the parent of a virtual machine:

• Datacenter

• Host

• Cluster

2. Select Actions → All Dell Storage Actions → Provision Virtual Machines.

The Provision Virtual Machines wizard starts.

3. Select Create Virtual Machine.

If you selected a datacenter in step 1, the Host/Cluster page opens. If you selected a host or cluster

in step 1, the Template Selection page opens.

4. If necessary, select the host or cluster on which to run virtual machines, and click Next.

The Template Selection page opens.

5. Select a virtual machine template, and click Next.

The Name and Location page opens.

Working With Virtual Machines