Vmware esxi windows server 2008 r2 template

Next, select the datastore where the virtual machine should be created. Finish the Virtual machine creation assistant. Turn on the new Virtual Machine. The system should start automatically a new operating system installation. Perform a regular Windows installation. After finishing the customization, restart the Windows virtual machine. Tutorial - Create the Windows Template using Sysprep. After finishing all the customizations desired, you need to Run the Sysprep Application. Sysprep is a tool created by Microsoft to prepare a Windows installation to become a template.

We are going to use the Sysprep tool to prepare this computer to become a Windows template. The Sysprep tool has the potential to cause loss of data.

After finishing the process, your computer will shutdown automatically. Do not turn on this computer anymore. Now, you need to create a Vmware Datastore repository to the template. Access the Datastores tab and select the Datastore browser option. On the Vmware datastore browser screen, click on the Create directory option.

Enter the desired name to the template repository folder. Now, you need to access the datastore folder of your Windows virtual machine. Copy the VMX file from the original Windows virtual machine to the template folder. Now, we are going to show you how to create a new Windows virtual machine from our template.

Access the Datastore tab and select the Datastore browser option. Enter the desired name to the new virtual machine folder. Now, you need to access the datastore folder where your virtual machine template is located. Access the Vmware Dashboard and power on the new virtual machine.

The system will display the following warning. Select the option Named: I Copied it and click on the Answer button. Does anyone know why, when deploy my template, the mouse in the new server is choppy and slow. Cannot determine why it is doing this. Yep - this is a relatively easy fix.

Change the display driver. Disabling IPv6 etc.? Friday, November 12, Vmware Windows R2 template. Having been playing around for some time now with Vmware templates and Windows R2 integration , I have decided to give credit to the few sites that have helped me and that shared their experience of preparing a template I could easily use as a master for my future VM deployments. This is a very complete resource, which comes with a full explaination of disk partitioning and of issues related to the component folder Winsxs It has also a downloadable unattend.

Thanks Jason! This guide is just a little bit unclear about the last steps of the Sysprep part, especially where it says 'Leave shutdown option as reboot'. I think it is much better to have the master VM to shutdown itself. After sysprep finishes running and the system shuts down, it is mandatory not to restart the server. Upon reboot, sysprep will run its commands and you will have a new system. If you do this, you just lost your template, unless you had taken a snapshot. This is mandatory otherwise your pagefile disk will be offline after rebooting and you will get an error message saying that ' the disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator '.

This is also a good resource, but still, the last part of sysprep is undercovered to me. The unattend. This is the first post ever written on the subject and therefore it deserves the highest award.