User`s guide
VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
48 VMware, Inc.
To publish a template
1Fromtheleftpane,clickVMTemplates.
Atemplatemustbeundeployedtopublishit.See“UndeployingTemplates”on
page 47.
2MovethepointeroverthetemplatenameandchoosePublishfromthemenu.
Importing Virtual Machines as Templates
ImportingatemplateimpliescopyingavirtualmachineexternaltotheStage Manager
systemintothetemplatelibrary.YoucanimportanexistingvirtualmachinefromSMB
orVirtualCenterstoragetoserveasatemplate.
YoucanimportavirtualmachinethatisnewtoStageManagerorwaspreviously
exportedby
Stage Manager.Stage ManagerchangestheMACaddressofallimported
virtualmachinesexceptforthoseinsuspendedstates.
Thesetupforthevirtualmachineisprimarilystoredinthesefiles:
Virtualmachinedisk(.vmdk)file.Youcanhavemultiple.vmdkfiles.
Virtualmachineconfiguration(.vmxforVMware)file.Thisfileisapproximately
15K.
Stage Managersupportsthesetypesofvirtualmachinesforimportoperations:
VMware Workstation
VMware Server
VMware ESX Server
ToimportVMware WorkstationorVMware Servervirtualmachines,firstbringthem
underVirtualCentercontrolandthenimportthemtoStage Manager.Forinformation
aboutESX ServerandVirtualCenteroperations,seeVMware Infrastructure3
documentation.
Stage ManagerdoesnotsupporttemplateswithmultipleNICsorIDEdiskdrives.If
youarenotsurewhetheryourvirtual
machinescanruninanESX Serverenvironment,
seeVMware Converterdocumentationaboutconvertingvirtualmachineformats.
ExportandimportoperationsrequireanopenSMBportontheESX Serverhosts.
AlthoughtheinstallationofStage Managertakescareofopenin gthatport,beawareof
thisrequirementincasesomeoneclosestheportafter
theinstallation.Tochecktheport
status,usetheesxcfg-firewall -q smbClientcommandoneachhost.