Lab 9 - Templates and Clones
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Lab 9. Templates and Clones (Lab based instruction) This lesson focuses on how to make a template from a Windows 7 VM with the machine powered off. Participants receive step by step instructions in a lab-based format on how to convert to template with a powered off machine. Participants also receive step by step instructions on how to make a templa...
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Video Description
Lab 9. Templates and Clones (Lab based instruction) This lesson focuses on how to make a template from a Windows 7 VM with the machine powered off. Participants receive step by step instructions in a lab-based format on how to convert to template with a powered off machine. Participants also receive step by step instructions on how to make a template with the machine powered on. These are easy methods of creating multiple virtual machines and makes updating a large environment more efficient.
Video Transcription
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Hello and welcome to lab number nine. We're going to be working with templates and clothes,
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so
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let's make a template from my window. Seven. V. M.
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First thing I need to dio is
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power the machine down.
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If I don't have a power down, I can clone to template
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so you can do this with a powered up machine, but we're gonna
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We're going to convert it to a template,
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and that needs to be powered down. So we'll go to our power menu
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and willpower it off.
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Nine. When I go back to look a template, I can see that converted template is available
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and you'll be noticing that
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it appears to have disappeared.
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So why does that happen?
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The reason why is because it's now in the PM's and templates view.
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So if I hold down control Shift V,
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you can see that
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the template is now created
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by default. He did not get put into any of the folders that I have set up here.
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Okay, so we can see that the templates created
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now I want to organize this a little bit better, so I'm going to drag it into my templates folder that I created earlier.
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Again, Right? Click on your your data center and you could make a new folder or use control F.
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So I'm gonna get us a different name. So I know
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what it is
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when I'll say it's window seven.
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Uh, template.
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So that should tell me that I converted a machine to create a template.
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Now you might be thinking. Well, okay, now I need a new window. Seven workstation.
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I want to build that. Very simple.
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Since this is a copy of the configuration settings for the
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the work station that we had the beginning, we can just right click
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and deploy a virtual machine from the template.
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So we're basically reversing the process of converting the VM two template
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so last for a name here, we'll just go back to the original name, which was wind.
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Seven.
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We have to pick the
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data center.
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You can even pick
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the folder if you wish,
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But I'm just going to stick in the data center so it doesn't go into a folder
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that we select our host.
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So you have a warning there about a networking problem? I'll have to go fix that later,
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and we'll cover that a little bit later in this course, actually.
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Okay, Now I have to pick my data store.
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I renamed my local disc earlier to local Yes, ***. Once I'll go with this
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since it has the most capacity.
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The other data stores are not large enough to hold a virtual machine right now,
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and we'll keep the virtual disc format
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the same as it WAAS.
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Notice that you can change
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a thick provisioned just within within two a thick
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you're zeroed or lazy zeroed.
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So this is a nice way to
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reconfigured your storage. If you did it the wrong way the first time around,
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anyway, we'll keep the same format,
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and we also have a very convenient option here to power the machine on
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after it gets created.
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There's also an option to use the customization wizard
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to customize the virtual machine when it gets built.
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We're just gonna
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to a straight clone back and forth. We're not going to customize.
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We get our summary screen and then we click finish.
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You'll notice that the machines virtual files will get copied very quickly.
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We're gonna pause here regardless.
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Okay, the clone finally completed,
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and we can see that the machine is now powered up.
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I could open a console
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and I'll go ahead and log in
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me,
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All right. I've got my
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files on my desk trap. I expected to see
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I convert the running.
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All right, I'd rather convert a powered down machine to a template.
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Then I deployed a virtual machine from that template
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in here we have it.
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So our next task is actually to clone the machine that is powered on.
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You know it's part on. I'm logged in. I can right click
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in Select Clone.
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Give this a new name of wind there. Seven
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Clone
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and let's pick a folder to put it in,
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I'll select my host
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Select local disc.
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We'll keep the disc format the same as before,
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and we will power the sky up after it's created
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and we have our summer screen and finally click finish.
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Let's bring their counsel back up,
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and you can see that we can. We can use the machine while it's being cloned
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before the performance will be affected somewhat, of course,
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but the machine at least can stay up and will notice that
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in our tasks area we're already at 40%.
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So I'll let this run will be back in a moment.
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Okay? We can see that the clone is finally completed.
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You still have my
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council open on the original system,
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and I can open the council on the clone.
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Haven't loaded into it yet, but
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it's ready there for me.
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And so now I have my
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original and my clone systems.
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So as you can see, this is a really easy way to create multiple machines.
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I can,
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uh, keep my templates
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for my master copies. And when you make changes to the template,
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then you can update your virtual machines by just deploying new V EMS. And getting rid of the old ones
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makes life easy when you have a large environment to manage.
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All right, that wraps up the tasks for Lab nine. In lab 10
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we'll be making some modifications to a virtual machine, such as changing its memory or
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disc size,
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renaming it on adding some raw Luns and changing the disc provisioning method.
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So see you in lap 10. Thanks
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