Lab-11 Using Templates and clones

in this lab we are going to deploy a virtual machine in the template and after that we will going a cloning .

Task-1 ,create a virtual machine template

open your web client go to home>vm and template

go to the data center right click>new folder >new vm and template ,before cresating folder ensure that vm machine should be power off

give new name to the folder which you want to creating and click ok


now turn off the power of the vm which you want to make a template

right click on VM1-1 go to template and select convert to template

confirm it and click ok

Task-2 Creating customization specifications

go to home select policy and profile

click on create new specification logo

write the name of customization sec name and also select os which you want

set your password

select your time zone according to your city

after all the steps click on finish

Task-3 deploy a virtual machine from a template

go to vm template right click choose, new vm from this template

enter new name for your vm and after that expand data center icon and select labVMs folder and click next

select your esxi host for me i select a first one which is addressed by 172.20.10.51 and click next .

select iscsi storage and click next

in the clone option tick on ,customize the operating system and power on virtual machine after creation .

click on finish .

after that follow same steps for VM2-2

after that power on the vm and click on ,open console

set your ip address

select network location for me i selected a work network

Task-4 ,create a content library

go to home and select ,content library

enter name

in the storage section click on shared iscsi storage

click on finish .

Task-5 clone a vm template to a template in a content library

go to VM-Template right click and select clone to library

inside the filter tick on VM-library and out the name into template name section after that click ok

Task -5 ,Deploy a virtual machine from VM template in the content library

go to vmtemplate >vmtemplateLib>new vm from this Template

enter name and select location ,expand datacenter and select labVMs

select host, for me i selected 172.20.10.52 and click next

select storage local2-1

after finish this process power on the machine and select console button

after that insure that vmware tools are installed or not ,for check this go to the right hand side on the bottom click on arrow sign .

task-7 clone a powered-on virtual machine

select vm2-1 right click>clone>clone to virtual machine

enter the name of clone for me i put a Host-clone and select folder

select resource like-172.2.10.52

select iscsi storage

this is is the end of lab 11,

i faced some difficulties in iscsi storage ,but i increased the storage and it works properly

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