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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition Over 70 recipes to help you design, configure, and manage a reliable and efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM 2012 R2.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782176848
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. VMM 2012 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Upgrading from Previous Versions 3. Installing VMM 2012 R2 4. Installing a High Available VMM Server 5. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM 6. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services 7. Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix® XenServer® Hosts 8. Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features of R2 9. Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 10. Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager Index

Importing VMware templates


This recipe focuses on importing VMware templates to VMM.

In VMM 2012, the VMware virtual machine disk (.vmdk) file is not copied/moved to the VMM library while importing a VMware template. Now, VMM copies the metadata associated with the VMware template, and the VMDK file remains in the VMware datastore.

By employing this approach, VMM allows you to deploy VMs more efficiently and quickly when using templates. Moreover, VMM 2012 does not delete the source template.

Note

VMM 2012 is highly dependent on the VMware template that resides on the vCenter Server.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to configure the BMC settings:

  1. On the Library workspace in the VMM console, click on Import VMware Template on the Home tab in the ribbon.

  2. Select the VMware template(s) to be imported and click on OK.

  3. To confirm that the template was added, expand Templates, and click on VM Templates in the Library pane.

How it works...

In VMM, only the metadata associated with a VMware template...

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