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Table Of Contents

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the following privileges:

Host.Local operations.Create virtual machine

Virtual machine.Inventory.Create new on the destination folder or datacenter.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Add new disk on the destination folder or datacenter, if you are

adding a new disk.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Add existing disk on the destination folder or datacenter, if you are

adding an existing disk.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Raw device on the destination folder or datacenter, if you are using a

RDM or SCSI pass-through device.

Virtual Machine.Configuration.Network

Resource.Assign virtual machine to resource pool on the destination host, cluster, or resource pool.

Datastore.Allocate space on the destination datastore or datastore folder.

Network.Assign network on the network that the virtual machine will be assigned to.

Procedure

1 Display the inventory objects in the vSphere Client by using the Host and Clusters view or the VM and

Templates view.

2 Right-click an object and select New > Virtual Machine.

The New Virtual Machine wizard opens.

What to do next

Select a Typical or Custom configuration option in the New Virtual Machine wizard.

Select a Configuration Option for the New Virtual Machine in the

vSphere Client

The Typical option shortens the virtual machine creation process by skipping choices that you rarely need

to change from their defaults. The Custom option provides more flexibility and choices.

Several relationships affect the information that you must provide during virtual machine creation. These

relationships include the inventory object on which you place the virtual machine, the customization path

option you select, the datastore on which the virtual machine and its files reside, and the host or cluster on

which it runs.

If you select a Typical configuration, the virtual machine hardware version defaults to that of the host on

which you place the virtual machine. If you select a Custom configuration, you can accept the default or

select an earlier hardware version. This configuration is useful if maintaining compatibility with an earlier

version of an ESX/ESXi host is necessary.

Prerequisites

For a Typical configuration, verify that you have the following information:

Virtual machine name and inventory location.

Location in which to place the virtual machine (cluster, host, resource pool).

Datastore on which to store the virtual machine's files.

Guest operating system and version.

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