Tag: Template

Installing open-vm-tools deployPkg plug-in for Ubuntu Guest Operating Systems

August 18, 2015

If you are installing the open source implementation of VMware Tools ‘open-vm-tools’ into your guest operating system and require to use the virtual machine as a template or leverage Site Recovery Manager to customize virtual machines after failover, then there is a requirement to install the ‘deployPkg Tools’ plug-in. The below details installing the plug-in … More Installing open-vm-tools deployPkg plug-in for Ubuntu Guest Operating Systems

Component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host when converting a template to a virtual machine

February 18, 2015

I was recently converting a template to a virtual machine for configuration when on performing the action to convert the template to a virtual machine using the vSphere Web Client I received the following error message: A component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host. The cause of the above issue was … More Component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host when converting a template to a virtual machine

Retrieving Virtual Machine Templates as vSphere View Objects

January 10, 2015

It is possible to retreive virtual machine template information using the Get-View cmdlet, by retrieving VirtualMachine type objects based on the property value that describes the object as a template to which the value is returned as a boolean value. To retrieve VirtualMachine objects , the property value we require to retrieve is Config.Template where the value is ‘True’, which can … More Retrieving Virtual Machine Templates as vSphere View Objects

Waiting on virtual machine Guest OS customization to complete

December 3, 2014

I recently discovered a blog article from Vitali Baruh on the PowerCLI QE team in regards to waiting for the guest OS customization to complete following a deployment of a virtual machine from a template. http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2012/08/waiting-for-os-customization-to-complete.html As Vitali discusses this process can be difficult to determine if this has completed in the guest operating system and if the … More Waiting on virtual machine Guest OS customization to complete

Retrieve Template Information using PowerCLI

April 12, 2014

It is possible to retrieve template information using the Get-Template cmdlet to obtain a number of properties. In this example I will be looking to retrieve the following items and export to comma-separated values (CSV) file: Name vCPU Memory Number of Hard Disks Size of Hard Disks Firstly, we will connect to the VI Server … More Retrieve Template Information using PowerCLI