In this chapter we shall cover:

• Creating a virtual machine
• Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
• Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine
• Attaching a Raw Device Mapping to a virtual machine
• Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group
• Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine
• Creating virtual machine snapshot
• Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
• Restoring a snapshot in the linear snapshot tree
• Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
• Consolidating snapshots
• Converting a virtual machine to a template
• Cloning a virtual machine to a template
• Exporting to an OVF template
• Deploying a virtual machine from an OVF template
• Exporting a virtual machine
• Creating a local content library
• Creating a subscribed content library