3.0
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager
- Using the Lab Manager Web Console
- Working with Network Templates
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Viewing the Virtual Machines in a Configuration
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Undeploying Virtual Machines
- Discarding State for Virtual Machines
- Consolidating Virtual Machines
- Modifying Virtual Machine Properties
- Viewing a Virtual Machine Console
- Working in a Virtual Machine Console
- Setting Up a Remote Desktop Connection
- Powering On or Powering Off a Virtual Machine
- Resetting a Virtual Machine
- Shutting Down a Virtual Machine
- Suspending and Resuming a Virtual Machine
- Installing VMware Tools
- Taking A Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Reverting to a Virtual Machine Snapshot
- Deleting a Virtual Machine Snapshot
- Inserting and Swapping CDs
- Ejecting CDs
- Inserting and Swapping Floppy Disks
- Ejecting Floppy Disks
- Working with BEA LiquidVMs
- Working with Virtual Machine Templates
- Accessing the VM Templates Page
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates
- Importing Virtual Machine Templates
- Saving Virtual Machines as Virtual Machine Templates
- Cloning Virtual Machine Templates
- Deploying Virtual Machine Templates
- Installing a Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools
- Customizing the Guest Operating System
- Prerequisites for Guest Customization
- Building a Microsoft Sysprep Package
- Choosing the Guest Customization SID Generation Tool
- Disabling Guest Customization
- Guest Customization for Windows NT and Solaris Virtual Machine Templates
- Customizing Guest Customization
- Importing Virtual Machine Templates from Lab Manager 2.x with VMware Tools and LM Tools
- Undeploying Virtual Machine Templates
- Sharing Virtual Machine Templates
- Publishing Virtual Machine Templates
- Managing Virtual Machine Templates
- Unpublishing Virtual Machine Templates
- Exporting Virtual Machine Templates to an SMB Share
- Consolidating Virtual Machine Templates
- Discarding State for Virtual Machine Templates
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Properties
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Hard Disks
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Network Interfaces
- Changing Ownership of Virtual Machine Templates
- Deleting Virtual Machine Templates
- Working with Configurations
- Accessing Configurations
- Creating Configurations
- Importing Configurations from an SMB Share
- Cloning Configurations
- Viewing Configuration Virtual Machines and Networks
- Changing the Virtual Machines in a Configuration
- Changing the Networks in a Configuration
- Deploying Configurations
- Working with Configuration Snapshots
- Saving Configurations to the Library
- Sharing Configurations
- Managing Configurations
- Working with Media
- Administering and Monitoring Lab Manager
- Monitoring Lab Manager
- Managing Users, Groups, and Roles
- Managing Organizations
- Managing Resources
- Managing Resource Pools
- Managing Hosts
- Managing Datastores
- Viewing Datastores
- Removing Datastores
- Enabling and Disabling Datastores
- Modifying Datastore Properties
- Viewing Virtual Machine Datastore Usage
- Viewing Virtual Machine Datastore Directories
- Deleting Expired Virtual Machines
- Renewing the Storage Lease for an Expired Virtual Machine
- Deleting Revert Points
- Consolidating a Virtual Machine Based on Datastore Usage
- Deleting a Virtual Machine or Configuration Based on Datastore Usage
- Managing Media Stores
- Managing Physical Networks
- Configuring Lab Manager Settings
- Managing VirtualCenter and Datacenters
- Performing “Force” Operations
- Roles and Rights
- Datastore Rights
- General Rights
- Group Rights
- High I/O Rights
- Host Rights
- Library Configuration Rights
- Machine Rights
- Media Rights
- Media Store Rights
- Navigation Bar Rights
- Network Template Rights
- Organization Rights
- Physical Network Rights
- Resource Pool Rights
- Role Rights
- Sharing Rights
- User Rights
- Virtual Machine Template Rights
- Workspace Configuration Rights
- Client and Browser Support
- Guest Operating System Support
- Network Fencing
- Extending Guest Customization
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 5 Working with Virtual Machine Templates
Customizing the Guest Operating System
Lab Managercancustomizethenetworksettingsoftheguestoperatingsystemofa
virtualmachinecreatedfromavirtualmachinetemplate.Thesesettingsincludethe
machinename,IPsettings,andsecurityidentifier(SID)forWindowsguestoperating
systems.Thiscustomizationallowsyoutocreateanddeploymultipleuniquevirtual
machinesbased
onthesamevirtualmachinetemplatewithoutmachinenameor
networkconflicts.
Whenyouconfigureavirtualmachinetemplatewiththeprerequisitesforguest
customizationandaddavirtualmachinetoaconfigurationbasedonthatvirtual
machinetemplate,Lab Managercreatesapackagewithguestcustomizationtools.
Whenyoudeployand
poweronthevirtualmachineforthefirsttime,Lab Manager
copiesthepackage,runsthetools,anddeletesthepackagefromthevirtualmachine.
Thisprocesstakesafewminutes.
Toavoidconflictswhennotusingguestcustomization,accessthevirtualmachine
consolethroughLab Managerandmanuallysetitsnetworkparameters
tounique
values.
Youcanenableordisablecustomizationforavirtualmachinetemplateoravirtual
machine.Bydefault,Lab Managerenablesguestcustomizationwhenyoucreateanew
template.
Prerequisites for Guest Customization
YoumustspecifythecorrectguestoperatingsystemontheVMTemplate
Propertiespage.Lab Managerusesthisinformationtodeterminehowto
customizetheoperatingsystem.
YoumustinstalltheversionofVMware ToolspackagedwithESX3.5orhigher.
TheLab ManagerWebconsolealsoprovidesthecorrectversionforinstallation.
IfyoucreateavirtualmachinetemplateinLab Manager3.0andinstall
VMware ToolsinLab Manager3.0,thevirtualmachinetemplatewillhavethe
correctVMware Toolsversion.
Ifyou
importavirtualmachineasavirtualmachinetemplatetoLab Manager,you
mustdeploythevirtualmachinetemplate.Thedeployoperationallows
Lab ManagertodetecttheversionofVMware Toolsinstalledonthevirtual
machinetemplate.Ifthevirtualmachinetemplatehasanoutdatedversionor
neverhadVMware Toolsinstalledon
it,youmustinstallVMware Toolsin
Lab Manager.