Managing Virtual Machines
In addition to creating VMs, vSphere administrators must perform a range of other tasks. Although most of these tasks are relatively easy to figure out, we include them here for completeness.
Adding or Registering Existing VMs
Creating VMs from scratch, as described earlier, is only one way of getting VMs into the environment. It's entirely possible that you, as a vSphere administrator, might receive pre-created VMs from another source. Suppose you receive the files that compose a VM—notably, the VMX and VMDK files—from another administrator and you need to put that VM to use in your environment. You've already seen how to use the vSphere Web Client–based file browser to upload files into a datastore, but what needs to happen once it's in the datastore? In this case, you need to register the VM. The process of registering the VM adds it to the vCenter Server (or ESXi host) inventory and allows you to then manage the VM.
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