Specifications

Basic System Administration
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4Right‐clickthetemplate,andchooseDeletefromDisk.
5ClickOKtoconfirmremovingthetemplatefromtheVirtualCenterdatabase.
Thetemplateisdeletedfromthediskandcannotberecovered.
Regaining Templates
Templatesareassociatedwithhosts,andtheonlywaytoregainorregistertemplates
afterremovingandaddingahostistousethedatastorebrowsertolocatethetemplate.
Thenusetheinventorywizardtonameandregisterthe.vmtxfileasatemplateback
intoVirtualCenter.
To regain a template
1StartVirtualCenter
client,andlogintotheVirtualCenterServer.
2ClicktheInventorybuttoninthenavigationbar,andselectthehostthatcontains
thetemplate.
3Right‐clickthedatastorethatcontainsthetemplateandselectBrowseDatastore.
4Browsethroughthedatastorefolderstofindthe.vmtxfile.
5Right‐clickthe.vmtxfileand
selectAddtoInventory.
TheAddtoInventorywizardappears.
6Enteratemplatemachinename,selectalocation,andclickNext.
Selectahostorclusteronwhichtostorethetemplate,andclickNext.
7Reviewyourselections,andclickFinish.
8Thetemplateisregisteredtothehostandcanbeviewedfromthehost’sVirtual
Machinetab.
Cloning Virtual Machines
Acloneisacopypluscustomizationofavirtualmachine.Whenyoucreateaclone,
VirtualCenterprovidesanoptiontocustomizetheguestoperatingsystemofthat
virtualmachine.Youcanplacethenewcloneonanyhostwithinthesamedatacenter
astheoriginalvirtualmachine,oryoucan
placeitinadifferentdatacenter.
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OTEIfyouwantthetemplatetoretainitsoriginalname,donotenteranameinthe
AddtoInventorywizard.VirtualCenterwillusetheoriginalnameifthefieldinthe
wizardisleftblank.