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NameCancontainonlyalphanumericcharacters(a–z,A–Z,0–9),hyphens,
underscores,orperiods.Maximumlengthis15characters.
Description(Optional)Maximumnumberofcharactersis128.
OwnerNameofthetemplateowner.
GuestOS(Optional)Maximumnumberofcharactersis128.
StorageServerStorageservertostorethevirtualmachineon.
Ifthetemplateisdeployed,clickTemplatesintheleftpane,movethepointer
overthetemplatename,andchooseUndeployfromthemenu.
VMTechnologyVMwareESXServer.
UseTimeSynchronizationVirtualmachinetimeisinsyncwiththehost
operatingsystemtime.
VMwareToolsInstalledIndicatesifVMwareToolsisinstalled.Thisishow
LabManagerknowsifVMwareToolsisinstalledonthetemplate.
LMToolsInstalledIndicatesifLMToolsisinstalledandenabled.
DeselectingthischeckboxdisablesLMToolsandpreventsLabManagerfrom
customizingthenetworksettingsforavirtualmachine.
SIDMechanism(ForWindowsmachines)IndicatesthetoolLab
ManagerusestochangetheSID.Forinformationonthe SIDmechanism,
see“ReviewtheLMToolsTabonpage 147.
IfyourtemplateusesaparticularSIDmechanism(SIDgenorSysprepas
designatedontheLMToolstaboftheWeb
console)andthetemplate
ownerwantstoswitchthemechanismjustforthattemplate,heorshecan
specifythedesiredoption.
VMChainLengthThenumberofdeltadisksgeneratedbycertain
operations.Foreachchange,LabManagerfreezesadeltadiskandcreatesa
newone.
VMDirectoryIDLocationofthevirtualmachineonthefilesystem.
Memory(MB)AmountofRAMallocatedforrunningthevirtualmachine.
MACAddressMachineMediaAccessControl(MAC)Address.Ifthe
templateisundeployed,youcanclicktheResetMACAddressbuttonto
recreatetheMACaddress.
HardDisksStorage,bustype,busnumber,andbusIDforeachvirtualhard
disk.See“A d d i n g VirtualHardDiskstoVirtualMachines(Templates)”on
page 39.