Specifications

Basic System Administration
206 VMware, Inc.
To clone an existing template
1StarttheVIclient,andlogintotheVirtualCenterServer.
2ClicktheInventorybuttoninthenavigationbar.
3 Selectthedatacenterthatcontainsthetemplate.
Thevirtualmachinesandtemplatesassociatedwiththedatacenterappearinthe
datacenterpanel.
4Right‐clickthetemplateandchooseClone.
TheCloneTemplatewizardappears.
5Givethenewtemplateauniquenameanddescription,andclickNext.
Enterausefulnameandabriefdescriptionofthetemplate.Description
informationcaninclude,forexample,theoperatingsystem,applications,versions,
andintendedusesforthetemplate.Thenamecanbeupto80characterslong,and
can
containalphanumericcharactersandtheunderscore
(_)andhyphen(‐)characters.Itshouldalsobeuniqueacrossalltemplatesand
virtualmachinesinthedatacenter.Namesarecase‐insensitive:thenameʺmy_vmʺ
isidenticaltoʺMy_Vmʺ.
6 Selectthehostorcluster,andclickNext.
7 Chooseadatastore
forthetemplate.ClickNext.
8 SelectaradiobuttontoeitherleavethevirtualdisksintheirNormalvirtual
machineformatortoCompactthevirtualdiskstominimizestorage.ClickNext.
9OntheReadytoCompletewindow,reviewtheinformationforyournewvirtual
machine,andclickFinish.
You
cannotusethenewtemplateuntilthecloningtaskcompletes.VirtualCenter
addstheclonedtemplatetothelistintheVirtualMachinestab.
Editing a Template
Youmightwanttoedityourtemplate(toupgradeanapplication,forexample).
However,templatescannotbeeditedastemplates.Youmustconvertthetemplatetoa
virtualmachine,editit,andconverttheeditedvirtualmachinetoatemplate.
To edit the template
1Convertthetemplatetoavirtualmachine.
2Editthevirtualmachine.