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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook

You're reading from   System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook Design, configure, and manage an efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM in System Center 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881480
Length 562 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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Roman Levchenko Roman Levchenko
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. VMM 2016 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Upgrading from Previous Versions 3. Installing VMM 2016 4. Installing a Highly Available VMM Server 5. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM 6. Configuring Guarded Fabric in VMM 7. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services 8. Managing VMware ESXi hosts 9. Managing Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and New Features of VMM 2016 10. Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2016 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Importing VMware templates


This recipe focuses on importing VMware templates to VMM. In VMM 2016, the VMware virtual machine disk (.vmdk) file is not copied/moved to the VMM library while importing a VMware template. Instead, VMM copies the metadata associated with the VMware template and the VMDK file remains in the VMware datastore.

Employing this approach when using templates, VMM allows you to deploy VMs more efficiently and quickly. Moreover, VMM 2016 does not delete the source template.

Note

VMM 2016 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, on the Home tab in the ribbon, click on Import VMware Template.
  2. Select the VMware template(s) to import and click on OK.
  3. To confirm that the template(s) adding was successful, expand Templates, and click on VM Templates in the Library pane.

How it works...

In VMM, only the metadata associated with...

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