VMware vSphere: VM Management - Cloning/Templating

[vSphere Bootcamp video series: bit.ly/18UEs9B]
Download Free Trial: bit.ly/HtON0P -- Welcome to Using Templates and Cloning.Templates and cloning are techniques that we can use to rapidly provision a virtual machine over and over and over again. We are basically taking a virtual machine, making a photocopy of that virtual machine, with the option to be able to customize it to give it uniqueness, so we don't have duplicate IPs or duplicate names, or in the case of some Windows guest operating systems, potentially duplicate SIDs.

[@sandiatek7201]

Without a clone option in the dropdown menu, how do you clone a VM? I don't see any clone option in my vSphere client.

[@paulturner1210]

An excellent presentation. Well delivered and to the point. Thank you.

[@2151anand]

Thank you for sharing the videos with us..... This is very useful for us...!!!

[@mrtypr]

Why dont I have the template or even clone options when I right click ?

[@kollo-me2]

+mrtypr Same problem here. I guess nobody wants to answer.

[@franklinlee3102]

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[@rogierburlage]

You can just convert it back to virtual machine. This is a how you would update your base image.

[@paulturner1210]

Hey Nelson. Check you have VMware vCenter installed alongside Vsphere.

[@Zombarakh]

Thanks, good luck on your youtube channel!

[@TheRamosd]

Thanks for the information Chris, very valuable :)

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[@abhishekkr.shrivastava8961]

Thank you

[@dgoldcamp]

From the demonstration and the comments of the instructor it looked like he was saying that when you create a template from a production machine it goes offline. He never goes back to say how you restore that machine into an online state back into production. How does that work? DOes the machine you created the tempolate from ever go offline? How do you bing it back online and put it back into production?

[@ashutoshbajpai5047]

thank you so much for sharing this video

[@joelblueyes]

Great video! thank you!
2 questions:
1. the system will reboot 3 times by itself? Just let it ride?
2. If I need to clone 100 machines and need naming convention, for example"
finance-1
finance-2
finance-3
hr-1
hr-2
hr-3
How can I achieve that?

[@unclecrusty1991]

Please continue with asking your questions Joel.

[@kingdistributionscorporation.]

Templates Cloning of Virtual Machines for Services Deployment.

[@ShobhitGupta12]

Maybe you connected your VI Client directly to host instead of connecting it to vCenter Server.

[@ThierryC2373]

And in 2019, this feature has been removed from vSphere Webclient... no thanks...

[@midobahja6776]

Je vous remercie excellent Tuto

[@YTkawano]

ummm so i don't have the "clone" option when i right click on my vm... wtf?

[@alexfromglasgow]

Orchestrator.

[@ialreadyloveyou]

Well there's no need to? Just clone it..

[@Booooker]

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