Create VM's Template

Overview

HI GIO provides virtual machine (VM) template sizes and operating systems.
The HI GIO template is a good place to start when you first deploy VMs into the HI GIO. However, you may want to create a template containing specific applications that you can use to deploy VMs quickly.
Assume your VM has already installed OS and VMware tools and is preconfigured.

Procedure

Prerequisites: VMware Tools must be installed & VM is powered off.

Step 1: On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore, and from the left panel, select Virtual Machines.

Step 2: Click card view

Step 3: On the card of the virtual machine that you want to start, click DETAILS.

Step 4: To enable\disable Hot-add for CPU\Memory, Click Compute > Edit (CPU section or Memory section)

Attention: VM’s state must be powered off.

Step 5: Enable toggle and click Save

Attention: vSphere restriction attention: vSphere restriction

Step 6: To customize Guest OS, Click Guest OS Customization > EDIT

TIP: Guest OS Customization will help you prepare the logon, change the password, \ Join the Domain (just for Windows) in the first boot after deploying.

Step 7: On Edit Guest Properties

Depends on the guest OS – Linux or Windows. The view of this page has some differences:

The Enable guest customization check box is selected.
Change the SID option (for Windows OS)
Select Allow local administrator password
Select Require administrator to change the password on the first login to require all administrators to change the password upon initial login (Administrators must know the old password)
Select Auto Generate password or Specify password (if you want to define it yourself).
Join Domain (this session is for Windows OS)