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7 Customize the Guest Operating System
When you customize a guest operating system, you can prevent conflicts that might result if you
deploy virtual machines with identical settings, such as duplicate computer names. You can change
the computer name, network settings, and license settings. You can customize guest operating
systems when you clone a virtual machine or deploy a virtual machine from a template.
8 Enter Additional Customization Parameters for the Guest Operating System
In the User Settings screen, you can enter the NetBIOS name and configure the network settings of
the virtual machine.
9 Customize Virtual Machine Hardware
Before you deploy a new virtual machine, you can choose to configure the virtual hardware. When
you create a virtual machine, the virtual disk is selected by default. You can use the New device
drop-down menu on the Customize Hardware page to add a new hard disk, select an existing disk,
or add an RDM disk.
10 Finish Virtual Machine Creation
Before you deploy the virtual machine, you can review the virtual machine settings.
Start the Clone an Existing Virtual Machine Task
To make an original copy of a virtual machine, you can clone an existing virtual machine. You can open
the New Virtual Machine wizard from any object in the inventory that is a valid parent object of a virtual
machine. You can also open the wizard directly from the virtual machine that you are going to clone.
If you open the wizard from a virtual machine, the Select a creation type page does not appear.
Procedure
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Select to clone a virtual machine.
Option Description
Open the New Virtual Machine wizard
from any object in the inventory
a Right-click any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual
machine, such as a datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host, and
select New Virtual machine > New Virtual Machine....
b Select Clone an existing virtual machine and click Next.
The Select a virtual machine page opens.
Open the Clone Existing Virtual
Machine wizard from a virtual machine
Right-click the virtual machine and select Clone > Clone to Virtual Machine.
The Select a name and folder page opens.
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