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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

Creating virtual machine templates


In this recipe, we will create virtual machine templates that use generalized images as the source.

VMM virtual machine templates are used to perform the automated installation and configuration of servers, dramatically reducing the time to release a server, and automate all these processes in a simple and uncomplicated deployment method.

Getting ready

Before you can create the virtual machine template, you need to create a new VM and install a vanilla OS (fresh Windows install) into it that will be used as the base for the template. Refer to the Creating and deploying virtual machines recipe of this chapter.

To create a VM template, you can select the source for which the template will be created from an existing template, a virtual disk (VHD) with a preinstalled operating system, or even a virtual machine that is being used in any host managed by VMM.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a VM template based on either an existing virtual hard...

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