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Chapter 5 Working with Configurations
Adding Virtual Machines to Existing Configurations
FromtheVirtualMachinestabofaconfiguration,youcanaddvirtualmachinesbased
onStage Managertemplates.
OnlyStageManageradministratorshaveaccesstoanImportVMfromVirtualCenter
optionwhenaddingvirtualmachinestoaconfiguration.See“ImportingVirtual
MachinesfromVirtualCentertoNewandExistingConfigurations”onpage 61.
To add a virtual machine based on a Stage Manager template
1In
theleftpane,clickServices.
2MovethepointerovertheservicenameandchooseDetailsfromthemenu.
Ifyouwanttoaccessdetailsonanarchivedconfigurationinsteadofanactive
lifecycleconfiguration,clicktheArchivetab.
3MovethepointerovertheconfigurationnameandchooseDetailsfromthemenu.
4Click
theAddVirtualMachinebutton.
5Providevirtualmachinedetails:
 Namethatcontainsalphanumericcharacters(a–z,A–Z,0–9),hyphens,
underscores,orperiods.Maximumlengthis15charactersforWindows
virtualmachinesand64charactersforUNIXandLinuxvirtualmachines.
 (Optional)Description.
 Templatetobasethevirtualmachineon.Ifaknowntemplatedoesnotappear
inthelist,verifythattheStage Manageradministratorpublishedthe
template.
 Fullorlinkedcloneofthetemplate.TheFullClonecheckboxactivatesthe
datastorelistwhereyoucanselectthestoragelocationofthevirtualmachine.
Linkedclonesremainonthesamedatastoreastheoriginaltemplate.See
“CloningConfigurations”onpage 129.
 IPaddressassignment.Static(manual)activatestheIPAddresstextbox.See
“IPAddressAssignmentforVirtualMachines”onpage 123and“UsingStatic
IPandDHCPNetworking”onpage 92.
 Gateway,subnetmask,andDNSsettings.Thedefaultvaluesarethevalueson
theGeneraltaboftheNetworkpage.OnlyStageManageradministratorscan
accessthispage.See“ConfiguringNetworkSettings”onpage 90.