Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab: Part 5 – Prepare the Template
First, we will need to ‘protect’ our parent VM and make it a template. This ensure we don’t delete it or power it on. Select the Windows2008R2_Base VM and click Edit virtual machine settings.
Select the Options tab, go to the Advanced item and check the Enable Template mode checkbox.
Next up, we need to snapshot the Base VM. All our linked clones will be based on this snapshot.
Right-click the VM and Snapshot it!
Give it a name like Version 1.0 and provide a good description of it.
That’s it! Now we are ready to start deploying the first VMs!
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 1: The Story
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 2: The Hardware
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 3: VMware Workstation 8
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 4: Base Template
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 5: Prepare the Template
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 6: Domain Controller
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 7: SQL Server
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 8: vCenter
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 9: ESXi
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 10: Storage
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 11: vMotion & Fault Tolerance
Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 12: Finalizing the Lab
