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Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, navigate to the datastore that contains the template.
2 Select the datastore and click the Files tab.
3 Locate the template folder and click it to display the template files.
4 Select the .vmtx file and click the Register VM icon.
The Register VM Template wizard opens.
5 On the Select a name and folder page, specify a name and location for the template and click Next.
6 On the Select a compute resource page, select a host or cluster on which to store the template and
click Next.
7 On the Ready to complete page, review your selections and click Finish.
8 (Optional) To verify that the template is reregistered, check the host or cluster inventory.
Inventory Object Steps
Host Browse to the host. On the VMs tab, click VM Templates.
Cluster On the VMs tab, click VM Templates.
The template is registered to the host. You can view the template by clicking on the host's VM Templates.
Using Snapshots To Manage Virtual Machines
Snapshots preserve the state and data of a virtual machine at the time you take the snapshot. When you
take a snapshot of a virtual machine, an image of the virtual machine in a given state is copied and
stored. Snapshots are useful when you want to revert repeatedly to a virtual machine state, but you do
not want to create multiple virtual machines.
You can take multiple snapshots of a virtual machine to create restoration positions in a linear process.
With multiple snapshots, you can save many positions to accommodate many kinds of work processes.
Snapshots operate on individual virtual machines. Taking snapshots of multiple virtual machines, for
example, taking a snapshot of a VM for each member of a team, requires that you take a separate
snapshot of each team member's virtual machine.
Snapshots are useful as a short term solution for testing software with unknown or potentially harmful
effects. For example, you can use a snapshot as a restoration point during a linear or iterative process,
such as installing update packages, or during a branching process, such as installing different versions of
a program. Using snapshots ensures that each installation begins from an identical baseline.
With snapshots, you can preserve a baseline before making changes to a virtual machine.
Several operations for creating and managing virtual machine snapshots and snapshot trees are
available in the vSphere Client. These operations enable you to create snapshots, restore any snapshot
in the snapshot hierarchy, delete snapshots, and more. You can create snapshot trees where you save
the virtual machine state at any specific time so that you can restore that virtual machine state later. Each
branch in a snapshot tree can have up to 32 snapshots.
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