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Deploying templates to local disks?

Hello,

I am newbie by all means, but I have a personal project that involves creating a small virtual environment with 2 clustered hosts and a number of VMs (TBD) that run on said hosts.

The hosts have been created with VMware Workstation and each has one 45GB disk where the hypervisor is installed + 2x 10GB virtual disks on a physical HDD + 2x 12.5GB virtual disks on a physical SSD:

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For each virtual disk I have a corresponding datastore in vSphere:

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I then created a small Linux VM and manually transferred it to one of the virtual disks of host #1.

Next I created a template from said VM and attempted to deploy it to create a clone but vSphere tells me no datastore is acceptable:

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What am I doing wrong? vSphere claims the disks are all unaccessible but I can browse the datastores from within the web client just fine, and my original Linux VM boots and runs fine. There are no alerts concerning the datastores.

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rcporto
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On the step 1b (Select a compute resource) select the host Host2 (192.168.0.102).

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Linjo
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It looks like you selected the storage on the other host and not the one you choose in the earlier step.

What happends if you choose the other one?

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VRBitman
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I get the exact same error no matter what datastore I select.

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rcporto
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On the step 1b (Select a compute resource) select the host Host2 (192.168.0.102).

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Hi Friend,

  PLz see which datastore the VM is resided (the VM whose template you are creating) & select the same datastore for placing the template.


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VRBitman
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That was it. Exactly as I was expecting, I was missing something, and you guys pointed out exactly what I did wrong.

I was selecting the cluster instead of a single host.

If I select a single host everything is OK and I can deploy it wherever I wish, on any datastore.

Thanks!

This opens another question at this point: if I wanted to deploy a VM "on the cluster" and let vSphere place wherever it wants using DRS, would I need a shared storage assigned to the cluster (as opposed to local disks attached to the hosts)? Is this correct?

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Yes that is correct.

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