General datacenter practice is to have standardized IT approved OS images that will be used for deployment, as opposed to building and installing a guest OS from scratch at every instance. This is addressed by using either virtual machine templates that are native to vSphere or leveraging open virtual machine standard OVF/OVA.
Converting a virtual machine to a template
by Cedric Rajendran, Abhilash G B
VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
- Upgrading to vSphere 6.5
- Introduction
- vSphere 6.5 core components
- Planning vSphere upgrade
- Upgrading from vSphere 5.5 or 6.0 to vSphere 6.5
- Upgrading vCenter Server running Microsoft Windows
- Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant
- Upgrading vCenter Server – Migrating from Microsoft Windows to VCSA
- Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance
- Upgrading ESXi Hypervisor
- Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5
- Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Introduction
- Preparing a reference host
- Creating Host Profiles
- Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
- Performing host customizations
- Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)
- Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks
- Remediating non-compliant ESXi hosts
- Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
- Copying settings between Host Profiles
- Exporting Host Profiles
- Duplicating Host Profiles
- Using ESXi Image Builder
- Introduction
- Enabling ESXi Image Builder service for vSphere Web Client GUI
- Preparing an ESXi Image Builder CLI environment
- Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
- Importing a software depot
- Creating an online software depot
- Creating a custom depot
- Creating image profiles using an existing image profile
- Creating image profiles from scratch
- Comparing image profiles
- Moving image profiles between software depots
- Exporting image profiles
- Using vSphere Auto Deploy
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere auto deploy service
- Configuring TFTP server with the files required to PXE boot
- Configuring the DHCP server to work with auto deploy
- Preparing vSphere environment – create host profile, configure the deploy rules and activate them
- Enabling stateless caching
- Enabling stateful install
- Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
- Creating VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Creating custom VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
- Creating virtual machine port groups on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Managing the physical uplinks of a vSwitch
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Connecting hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating a vSphere Distributed port group
- Managing physical adapter (vmnic) to dvUplink mappings
- Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch (vSwitch ) to a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard (vSwitch) and vSphere Distributed Switches (dvSwitch)
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch backup
- Restoring dvSwitch from a backup
- Creating or importing a dvSwitch from a backup
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a dvSwitch
- Configuring VLANs on a vSphere Standard or Distributed Switch
- Configuring private VLANs on a dvSwitch
- Configuring LAGs on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating user-defined network resource pools
- Using port mirroring on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Enabling NetFlow on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore
- Introduction
- Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
- Viewing datastores available on an ESXi host
- Creating a VMFS datastore
- Managing multipathing configuration of a VMFS datastore
- Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
- Extending a VMFS datastore
- Unmounting and detaching VMFS volumes
- Re-mounting a VMFS datastore
- Deleting VMFS datastores
- Upgrading from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6
- Managing VMFS volumes detected as snapshots
- Masking paths to a LUN
- Unmasking paths to a LUN
- Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage
- Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
- Introduction
- Creating a virtual machine
- Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
- Adding an existing 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
- Creating virtual machine snapshots
- Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
- Restoring a snapshot in linear snapshot tree
- Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
- Consolidating snapshots
- Converting a virtual machine to a template
- Cloning a virtual machine to template
- Exporting to an OVF template
- Deploying a virtual machine from an OVF template
- Creating a local content library
- Creating a subscribed content library
- Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster
- Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control
- Setting the host isolation response for a HA cluster
- Setting the VM restart priority for a HA cluster
- Configuring VM monitoring
- Configuring datastore heartbeating
- Disabling host monitoring
- Configuring vCenter Native High Availability
- Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
- Configuring VMware Enhanced vMotion compatibility
- Choosing a DRS automation level
- Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM
- Setting a migration threshold
- Creating DRS VM or host groups
- Creating VMs to host affinity rules
- Creating VM affinity or anti-affinity rules
- Configuring Distributed Power Management
- Configuring Predictive DRS
- Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere Update Manager on Windows
- Activating vSphere Update Manager in vCenter Server Appliance
- Installing the Update Manager download service
- Configuring VUM with a download source
- Creating a custom baseline
- Creating a baseline group
- Importing an ESXi image and updating a host
- Leveraging a VM/VA baseline to remediate a VM/VA
- Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Introduction
- Regenerating a new VMCA Root Certificate and replacing all certificates
- Generating certificate signing requests with the vSphere Certificate Manager
- Replacing all certificates with custom certificate
- Reverting the last performed operation by republishing old certificates
- Resetting all certificates
- Using vSphere Management Assistant
- Introduction
- Deploying the vMA appliance
- Preparing VMware vMA for first use
- Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain
- Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
- Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication
- Adding an ESXi host to vMA
- Changing the authentication policy
- Running CLI commands on target servers
- Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment
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