6.5.1

Procedure
1 From the vSphere Web Client Home inventory page, select Policies and Profiles > Customization
Specification Manager.
2 Click the Create a new specification icon to open the New VM Guest Customization Spec wizard.
3 Select Windows from the Target VM Operating System drop-down menu, and enter a name and
optional description for the specification and click Next.
4 On the Set Registration Information page, type the virtual machine owner’s name and organization
and click Next.
5 Enter the guest operating system's computer name.
The operating system uses this name to identify itself on the network. On Linux systems, it is called
the host name.
Option Action
Enter a name a Type a name.
The name can contain alphanumeric characters and the hyphen (-) character.
It cannot contain periods (.) or blank spaces and cannot be made up of digits
only. Names are not case-sensitive.
b (Optional) To ensure that the name is unique, select Append a numeric
value to ensure uniqueness. This action appends a hyphen followed by a
numeric value to the virtual machine name. The name is truncated if it
exceeds 63 characters when combined with the numeric value.
Use the virtual machine name The computer name that vCenter Server creates is identical to the name of the
virtual machine on which the guest operating system is running. If the name
exceeds 63 characters, it is truncated.
Enter a name in the Clone/Deploy
wizard
The vSphere Web Client prompts you to enter a name after the cloning or
deployment is complete.
Generate a name using the custom
application configured with vCenter
Server
Enter a parameter that can be passed to the custom application.
6 Provide licensing information for the Windows operating system and click Next.
Option Action
For nonserver operating systems Type the Windows product key for the new guest operating system.
For server operating systems a Type the Windows product key for the new guest operating system.
b Select Include Server License Information.
c Select either Per seat or Per server.
d If you select Per server, enter the maximum number of simultaneous
connections for the server to accept.
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