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Chapter 13 Working with Templates and Clones
3Convertthevirtualmachinetoatemplate.
Youcandirectlychangethenameofatemplateusingtheprocedurebelow.
To change the name of a template
1FromtheVirtualCenterclient,clicktheInventorybutton.
2 Selectthedatacenterthatcontainsthetemplate.
3 SelecttheVirtualMachinestab.
4Clickonthetemplate.Clickthetemplateagain.
5Thenameofthevirtual
machineisnowaneditablefield.
6 Changethename,andclickoutsidethefield.
Deploying Virtual Machines from Templates
Thisproceduredeploysavirtualmachinefromanexistingtemplate.
To deploy a virtual machine from a template
1StarttheVIClient,andlogintotheVirtualCenterServer.
2ClicktheInventorybuttoninthenavigationbar.
Theinventorypanelandtheinformationpaneldisplayinformationabout
manageddatacenters,hosts,resourcepools,andvirtualmachines.Theinventory
toolbarappears.
3 Selectthedatacenterthatcontainsthetemplate,andclicktheVirtualMachines
tab.
Thevirtualmachinesandtemplatesassociatedwiththedatacenterappearinthe
datacenterpanel.
4Right‐clickthetemplate,andchooseDeployVirtualMachinefromthis
Template.
TheDeployTemplatewizardappears.
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OTEWhenatemplatethatresidesonalegacyVMFS2datastoreisconvertedtoa
virtualmachine,theresultingvirtualmachinemustberegisteredonthehostwherethe
templatewascreated.Selectthishostasthedestinationforthenewvirtualmachine.