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Virtual Machine Template VMware, in this blog, I will show you how to convert a Virtual Machine by using vCenter to a template.

Introduction

The benefits of virtualization are that you can quickly deploy new systems without having to install operating systems each time. Perfectly, we only need to create a VM and install an operating system once.

Then you can convert Virtual Machine to a template, which can be utilized to deploy multiple virtual machines quickly

Convert an existing VM to a template

If the virtual machine has just been created particularly to be used as a template. In this guide, we will run through creating a Virtual Machine Template from a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine I have created earlier.

Virtual Machine Template VMware

1- Creating Virtual Machine Templates, Login to your vCenter.

2- Select Hosts and Cluster.

3- First, we need to shut down the virtual machine, Select Virtual Machine, select the Action tab, select Clone, and click Clone to Template.

4- The Clone Virtual Machine to Template wizard windows will open. Give the Template a name and select the Datacenter object that you wish to save the template to and then click Next.

5- Select the Host where you want to store this Template and then click next.

6- I want to use Thin Provisioning to store me Template so it does not take up too much room. Select virtual disk format Thin Provisioning, select a datastore where you need to store the Virtual Machine template, check compatibility check succeeded, and then click next

7- Verify your VM Template settings and then click Finish.

8- VM clone to template is in progress.

9- VM template successfully completed.

10- Select VMs and Template icon, select Virtual Machine Template, select the Action tab, and click Convert to a virtual machine.

11- Convert template to Virtual Machine, select a compute resource and then click next.

12- Review the virtual machine summary and then click finish.

13- As you can see SRV2012-Template is now ready to use.

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Clone a virtual machine VMware, A clone is a copy of an existing virtual machine. The existing virtual machine is called the parental of the clone. When the cloning process is complete, the clone is an individual virtual machine though it may share virtual disks with the parent virtual machine.

1- Login into your VMware vCenter client.

2- Review the summary or your virtual machine the one you want to clone.

3- Right click on your Virtual Machine, select Clone and then click Clone to Virtual Machine.

4- Type a name for the clone virtual machine and then click next.

5- Select the resource pool on which you wish to run the virtual machine, compatibility checks succeeded and then click next.

6- Select the datastore in which one you want to store the configuration, compatibility checks succeeded, virtual disk format select thin provision, check VM Storage Policy, and then click Next.

7- Select clone options and then click next.

8- Customize the guest Operating System to prevent conflicts when you deploy the virtual machine and then click Next.

9- Set up the virtual machine hardware, disconnect network adapter and then click next.

10- Review the virtual machine clone settings and then click finish.

11- Cloning virtual machine in progress.

12- Virtual machine successfully cloned.

13- Select the cloned virtual machine and then select power on icon.

14- When you power it on, the Windows server 2012 login successfully.

Related: how to clone a Virtual Machine to template in VMware

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Add additional hard disk VM, In this article, I will add a virtual hard disk to an existing virtual machine, or you can add a hard disk when you customize the VM hardware during the virtual machine creation process. When we add the hard disk to a virtual machine, you can create a new virtual disk, add an existing virtual disk, or add a mapped SAN LUN.

Add additional hard disk VM (Virtual Machine).

1- Login to your VMware vSphere Client, In the vSphere Client inventory, right-click the virtual machine the one you want to add an additional hard disk and then select Edit Settings.

2- Click the Virtual Hardware, click Add New Device, and then click Hard Disk under Disks, Drives, and Storage.

3- After selecting hard disk, Now you can see new hard disk has been added.

4- Select a location to store the disk.

Save with the virtual machine or specify a datastore. If you selected to identify a datastore, browse for the datastore location.

 

5- Select a datastore where you want to store and then click OK.

6- Thick Provision creates a virtual disk in a default thick format.

The Thick Provision Eager Zeroed creates a type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such as Fault Tolerance.

Thin Provision creates a disk in a thin format. Select this format to save storage space.

Disk provision selects Thin Provision.

7- Click ok.

8- Log in to your virtual machine, open Server Manager, select Tools, and click Computer Management.

9- Under Computer Management select Disk Management.

10- Right click Disk 1 and click Online.

11- Now Right-click Disk 1 and select Initialize Disk.

12- Click OK.

13- Right click Unallocated volume and click New Simple Volume.

14- Welcome to new simple volume wizard, then click Next.

15- Select volume size and click next.

16- Assign a drive letter and click next.

17- Format Partition, Click next.

18- New volume successfully created, click finish.

19- Open my computer and you can see a new volume.

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Increase Virtual Machine Disk Space,
I this blog, I will explain how to increase the disk space of my virtual machine.
We can increase the disk size of the VM (virtual machine) relatively easily once you are know-how. But if we have any snapshots created, it can be a pain. Be mindful that increasing the size of the Virtual machine (VM) is different than increasing the size of the disk partition on the host computer.

1- Right click on VM the one you need to increase size and then select Edit settings

2- After shutting down the virtual machine it does not allow me to change the size & the Disk File ends in 000001.vmdk

How to find out the size of your snapshots for the virtual disks, you can check snapshot .vmdk file sizes in the Datastore Browser.

3- Right-click on VM, Select snapshot menu and then click snapshot manager

4- Select the snapshot and then click delete

Increase Virtual Machine Disk Space

5- Make sure your virtual machine backed up.
Select the virtual machine that is running out of disk space.
Right-click on VM and then select Edit Settings.
On the Hardware, sections select the virtual hard disk (example Hard disk 1 or 2)
On the right-hand side, under Disk Provisioning increase the Provisioned Size and then click OK.
For example, if you have 2 disks and you need to increase the size for drive C from 50 to 1000GB and drive D from 70 to 100GB. Increase the size using the up arrow or type it and then click OK.

6- After increasing the size login to your server and go to the server manager, select tools and then select computer management.

7- Under Storage select Disk Management. You can unallocated space at the end of the disks.

8- Right-click drive and select Extend Volume.

9- Extend volume wizard click next.

10- Select disk and then click next

11- Click finish

12- Your drive size will increase right away and no need to reboot the computer.

13- See your disk after increasing the space.

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Enable Hot Add Hot Plug

In this blog, I will provide you steps on how to increase VMware vSphere VMs RAM or CPUs (Enable Hot Add Hot Plug) without shutting down VMs. We typically add extra RAM and plug additional CPUs.

1- Right-click on Virtual Machine the one you want to increase ram, CPU, and then click Edit Settings.

2- By default CPU Hot Plug and Memory Hot Plug features are disabled.

First, we need to enable them, so we need to power off of our virtual machine.

3- Right click on VM, select Power option and click Power off. (I am testing in my home lab if you are working in an environment then please do proper shutdown your virtual machine).

4- Click yes to confirm Power Off.

How to change VM configuration

5- Now VM is shutdown, right click on VM and select Edit Settings.

Before enabling Hot-Add/Hot-Plug, it’s a good time to know about requirements and limitations.

Requirements and limitations Please visit VMware

6- Virtual Machine Edit Settings, select the Virtual Hardware tab, and select checkbox to enable CPU Hot Plug, Memory Hot Plug, and then click ok.

Note: – These features will allow adding more RAM (Memory Hot Add) and vCPUs (CPU Hot Plug) without shutting down the VM. In this way, there is no downtime if you need just to add some more power to your VMs.

7- Select Virtual Machine and then select Power On button.

8- Now VM is Power On, right click on VM and select Edit Settings.

Windows Server 2012

9- Let’s start with Windows Server. Here we can change VM configuration in Windows Server 2012.

Now CPU is 1 and Memory is 2 GB.

10- I increased the CPU 1 to 2 and Memory from 2 GB to 4GB and then click ok

11- Windows Server System properties.

Assign User Global Permissions

In this blog, I will assign user global permission to FQDN active directory administrator user account to access VMware vCenter instead of [email protected] account.
1- Log in with your VMware vSphere Client, typing vCenter username and password.

2- Select the menu tab and click on administrator option.

3- On your left-hand side under Access Control, select Global Permission and click the + icon.

4- From the Domain drop-down box, select an active directory domain (xpertstec.local).

5- From the User/Group option, type administrator and then select administrator.

6- Select Administrator under role.

7- Choose Propagate to children checkbox and then click OK.

8- Now you can see FQDN successfully added, so select [email protected] and then click Logout.

9- Type local domain username, password and then click login.

10- Login with the active directory domain administrator account.

How to assign user read only permissions

I already created Active Directory account user name Jamil to assign permissions on vSphere objects using this same account. Here I will set read-only permission for the user name Jamil. Or you can allow Jamil users to perform basic tasks such as powering on or rebooting a virtual machine.
1- Login with your VMware vSphere Client, select the menu tab, and click on the administrator option.

2- On your left-hand side under Access Control, select Global Permission and click the + icon.

3- From the Domain drop-down box, select an active directory domain (xpertstec.local).

4- From the User/Group option, type a user name (for example Jamil) the one you want to give read-only permission

5- Select Read-only under role.

6- Choose Propagate to children checkbox and then click OK.

7- Now you can see the Read-only user successfully added, so select [email protected] and then click Logout.

8- Type local domain username, password and then click login.

9- Login with the read only account, and you can check the VM menu hidden

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Active Directory Authentication vCenter simplifies the centralized login for Active Directory users to log in and manage the virtual workloads in VMware vCenter Server 7. Group policies may be create to automatically update and guarantee workstations in the domain. You will be able to connect the users and groups from this Active Directory domain to your vCenter Single Sign-On domain.

Active Directory Authentication vCenter Server 7.0

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1- First, we want to login to the VMware vSphere Client using a user account that has System Configuration Administrators group in vCenter Single Sign-On. You can log in using SSO administrator account [email protected], password and then click login

2- On the VMware vSphere Client main page, select the VMware vSphere Client menu, and select the Administration option.

3- From the left-hand side expand Single Sign-On select Configuration.

Select the identity sources tab.

click on the ADD button to add the Active Directory.

4- Identity source type, choose Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) option.

5- Type the Domain name in the FDQN format.

Do not use an IP address in this domain name field. Select the option use Machine account to use the local machine account and then click the add button.

6- In the Identity sources tab, you can see the domain xpertstec.local is started appearing with the type Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication).

7- After configuring the Active Directory Authentication for vCenter Server. You will be able to see the Active Directory domain (xpertstec.local) under the Domain drop-down list and select your local domain (xpertstec.local).

8- Unser users and groups, now you can see the Active Directory objects under VMware vCenter users and Groups. You can add active directory users and groups to assign permission to access and then manage vCenter inventory objects.

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Expand VMware ESXi Host Datastore Capacity, In this blog, I am going to expand the ESXi 6.7 host datastore.

Increase Datastore Capacity for ESXi host.

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1- Log in to your ESXi host web interface, on the left-hand side select Storage menu and then click Datastore.

2- Now you can see a list of the current datastores on the ESXi server along with information about the datastore, capacity, free disk space, etc, click on the datastore you wish to expand to select it. After selecting datastore, then select the Increase capacity tab.

3- Select Add an extend to existing VMFS datastore and click next.

4- If you do not see any device here to select that means you need to first add the storage to your VM server or you have to properly provide it so that it shows up as a disk on the system and then click next.

5- Select the partitioning options. You can likewise use the full disk space or you can choose to create a smaller partition and leave some free space. You also need to choose the VMFS version, which in my case was either VMFS 5 or VMFS 6.

Following e the original datastore was on VMFS 6, I kept the value the same for the increased storage and then click next.

6- Review the summary and click the Finish button to increase the capacity of your ESXi datastore.

7- ESXi expand datastore warning, click yes.

8- Now you can see, the ESXi host server has a capacity of 42.25 GB.

For more details how to Expand VMware ESXi Host Datastore Capacity please visit VMware

Create ESXi Installer USB Flash drive, In this post, I will explain the way to produce a bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash drive. Some servers while not CD/DVD drive or remote KVM you would possibly need to use associate degree USB Flash Drive to put in ESXi to the hardware.

Create Bootable USB Media ESXi

How to Download Rufus click here

How to Download an ESXi image please visit VMware

1- Connect your USB flash disk to your PC, go to your download folder and then open Rufus.

2- Select USB flash drive under Device
Click the Browse button and then select VMware ESXi ISO file
Under Partition, scheme choose MBR and for target system select BIOS or UEFI
Type a volume label and then click Start.

3- A newer version can be downloaded by Rufus to fix this issue, click on Yes.

4- USB Erase data warning click ok.

5- Rufus will start to create bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Disk. This will take a few minutes to complete the process.

How to Create ESXi 6.7 Installation USB media

How to download Universal USB Installer click here

1- Double click to run the universal USB Installer.

2- Click I Accept button to Accept the license agreement.

3- Select try unlisted Linux ISO option and then click the browse button to select the ISO file of ESXi 6.7 (VMware-ESXi Installer-6.7.0.iso file), select your USB flash drive, and click on create button to start the process.

4- All data will be deleted warning, click yes.

5- Its star extracting the VMware-ESXi-6.7.0.iso file before copying to the USB.

6- Universal USB installer copied successfully, click close.

Now when you’ll change the boot order in the BIOS of your server into the USB boot option.

For more details how to create bootable flash drive click here

Increase VMFS Datastore Capacity, in this blog, we will see how to increase the size of a Datastore with vSphere Client in order to add Virtual Machine or increase the size of these. Before expanding the VMware vSphere datastore you must be increasing your LUN in your SAN storage before to increase in your vSphere environment.

Expand VMFS Datastore Capacity

1- Login VMware vSphere Client, using username and password.

2- Select Storage icon.

3- Select your datastore the one you want to increase the size, Select Action menu, and then click Increase Datastore Capacity.

4- Here you can see the LUN storage properties, so click the next button.

5- Under Datastore specify the configuration, select Use free space size 77.

67 GB to increase the datastore.

6- Here you can see the Maximum disk space available.

You can select the size that you need to increase.

7- (I want to increase size 40 GB), so click next.

8- Now you can see an increase datastore capacity summary. Click finish to increase your datastore size.

9- In the Recent tasks pane, you can see the task Expand VMFS datastore and another Rescan VMFS.

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Increase VM Hard Disk size, in this blog you can see how to increase virtual machine hard disk size from the vSphere Web Client interface.

Increase Virtual Machine Hard Disk Size

1- Login to your VMware vSphere Web Client, select the Virtual Machine you want to increase the disk size, Select Configure tab, under settings select VM Hardware and click the Edit button.

2- Here you can find the VM hard disk you want to increase the size.

3- Then you can increase the new size required for this hard disk and then click the ok button.

4- Under Recent Tasks, you can see reconfigure virtual machine status.

5- Now VM hard disk capacity increased from 40 GB to 50 GB.

6- Login to your virtual machine Windows Server, open my computer, and then you can see hard disk size not yet increases.

7- Open Server Manager, expand Storage, then click Disk Management and you can see 10 GB disk unallocated.

8- Right click on hard disk C and then click Extend Volume.

9- Now welcome to the Extend Volume wizard, click next.

10- Select the unallocated volume and then click next.

11- Click finish.

12- Now you can see in my computer Local Disk C has been increased.

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