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Chapter 3 Managing and Configuring Stage Manager
IfVMwareToolsisinstalledonthetemplateandtheversiondoesnotmeetStage
Managerrequirements,Installed(RequiresUpdate)appearsintheVMware
Toolscolumn.
IfStageManagercannotdetectwhetherVMwareToolsisinstalled,Unknown
appearsintheVMwareToolscolumn.
ForVMwareToolrequirements,see“InstallingVMware Tools”onpage 39.
 Dateandtimeofthelastdeployoperation
 Messages
Usethispagetoaddatemplateorimportavirtualmachineasatemplateunder
Stage Managercontrol.See“ReviewingtheFourMethodsofCreatingTemplates”on
page 35.
Fromthetable,youcandeploy,export,clone,publish,anddeleteatemplate.Youcan
accessthepropertiesofatemplate.
Reviewing the Four Methods of Creating Templates
Useoneofthesemethodstocreateatemplate:
 Installanoperatingsystemandotherapplicationsonablanktemplate.
 ImportavirtualmachineexternaltoStage Managertoserveasatemplatefroma
networkdirectory.
 UseanactivevirtualmachineunderStage Managercontrolasthebasisofanew
template.
 Cloneatemplatealreadyinthetemplatelibrary.
Installing an Operating System and Applications on a Blank
Template
Installinganoperatingsystemandapplicationsonablanktemplateinvolvesthese
high‐leveltasks:
 Createablanktemplatewithoutanoperatingsystemoradditionalsoftware.
 Deploythetemplate.
 Installaguestoperatingsystemonthevirtualmachine.
 InstallVMware Tools.
 Installanyadditionalsoftwareyouneedtorunonthevirtualmachine.