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Chapter 5 Using the Converter Boot CD for Local Cold Cloning
Choosing a Destination for a New Virtual Machine
Yourdestinationvirtualmachinecanbeoneoftwocategories:
ESXServerSee“ChooseaVirtualCenterServerVirtualMachineDestination”onpage 47
WorkstationSee“ChooseaStandaloneVirtualMachineDestination”onpage 48
Unsupported Clusters
IfyouareconvertingyourvirtualmachinetoruninESXServermanagedbyVirtualCenter,andyouwantto
haveaclusterasthedestination,theclustersVMwareDRSsettingsmustbesettomanual.Converterdoesnot
supportasdestinationsclustersinwhichtheDRSissettopartiallyautomated
orfullyautomated.
Choose a VirtualCenter Server Virtual Machine Destination
UsethisprocedureifyouareconvertingthevirtualmachinetoruninESXServermanagedbyVirtualCenter.
To select the destination for a converted virtual machine
1ClickNextontheDestinationpagetomovetotheDestinationTypepage.
2 SelectVMwareInfrastructureVirtualMachinefromthedropdownmenuandclickNext.
3OntheDestinationLoginpage,login
totheVirtualCenterserverdestinationandfollowthesesteps:
a Choosethedestinationserverinthedropdownmenuortypethenameoftheserverifitisnotlisted.
bTypeyourusernameandthepasswordforthedestinationserver.
cClickNext.
4OntheVirtualMachineNameandFolderpage,assignanametothevirtualmachine.
5IntheVirtualMachineInventoryLocationpane,chooseafolderintheVirtualCenterinventory.
TheVirtualCenterinventorymightcontainmultiplehosts,clusters,anddatacenters.
6ClickNext.
7OntheHostorClusterpage,specifytheresourcesfortheconvertedvirtualmachine,asfollows:
a Selectthehost,cluster(forVirtualCenterserversonly),orresourcepoolwithinahostorclusterfrom
whichtorunthevirtualmachine.
bIfyouselectaclusterinmanualmode,ontheHostpagechoosethespecifichostforthevirtual
machine.
cClickNext.
8 (Optional)Todistributedisksoverseveraldatastoresorto
placethevirtualmachineconfigurationfileand
eachdiskonaseparatedatastore,dothefollowing:
aClickAdvancedtoseethelistofdisksandthevirtualmachineconfigurationfile.
b Choosethedatastoreforeachdiskandfilefromthedropdownmenus.
Ifinsufficientspaceisavailable,anerrormessage
appearsstatingtherequiredamount.
9OntheNetworkspage,mapthevirtualmachine’snetworkadapterstoaVirtualCenternetworkandclick
Next.
TheNetworkspaneldisplaysthenetworksavailableatthedestinationlocationindropdownmenus.The
numberofadapterstomapcanbesetinadropdownmenu
aswell.
Continuewith“CustomizeaNewVirtualMachine’sGuestOperatingSystem”onpage 49.