topic MS 2k3 2k8 prepackaging best practices in Enterprise Strategy & Planning Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039073#M32675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>Hello</P><P></P><P></P><P>Not sure this is the right place to ask... please bear with me <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P><P></P><P></P><P>I'm looking for reference documents / best practice guides for the creation on pre-packaged windows 2003 / 2008 server images that will deploy easily in an ESXi environment.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Basically I'd like to prepare some template images to be re-used for actual production server deployment. Altough I have managed to have something working reasonably well all by myself I was wondering if there where best practice guides. I have tried to search the site but I was owhermeld by the ammount of materiel returned, mostly non relevant...</P><P></P><P></P><P>So any pointer would be much appreciated.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P><P>alex </P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:47:23 GMT atakacs 2008-12-15T21:47:23Z MS 2k3 2k8 prepackaging best practices https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039073#M32675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>Hello</P><P></P><P></P><P>Not sure this is the right place to ask... please bear with me <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P><P></P><P></P><P>I'm looking for reference documents / best practice guides for the creation on pre-packaged windows 2003 / 2008 server images that will deploy easily in an ESXi environment.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Basically I'd like to prepare some template images to be re-used for actual production server deployment. Altough I have managed to have something working reasonably well all by myself I was wondering if there where best practice guides. I have tried to search the site but I was owhermeld by the ammount of materiel returned, mostly non relevant...</P><P></P><P></P><P>So any pointer would be much appreciated.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P><P>alex </P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:47:23 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039073#M32675 atakacs 2008-12-15T21:47:23Z Re: MS 2k3 2k8 prepackaging best practices https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039074#M32676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>Hi Alex,</P><P> The VirtualCenter 2 Templates Usage and Best Practices document might be useful: <A href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vc_2_templates_usage_best_practices_wp.pdf"></A></P><P> Author: John Dodge, CIO of Foedus Group</P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:09:58 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039074#M32676 Protegimus 2008-12-16T01:09:58Z Re: MS 2k3 2k8 prepackaging best practices https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039075#M32677 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>Thanks - interresting document.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Any "real liffer" experience ?</P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P><P><img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P><P>alex </P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:18:45 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039075#M32677 atakacs 2008-12-16T15:18:45Z Re: MS 2k3 2k8 prepackaging best practices https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039076#M32678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>The document it the way we almost all create templates. Some people make 'templates' within VC and deploy from template, others mark VMs as templates an clone VMs. Which way you do it really depends on your requirements and whether you have vCenter server, etc.</P><P></P><P><BR />Best regards,</P><P>Edward L. Haletky</P><P>VMware Communities User Moderator</P><P>====</P><P>Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.</P><P>Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs: <A href="http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Blog_Roll" target="test_blank">http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Blog_Roll</A></P><P>Top Virtualization Security Links: <A href="http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Top_Virtualization_Security_Links" target="test_blank">http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Top_Virtualization_Security_Links</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:22:41 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Enterprise-Strategy-Planning/MS-2k3-2k8-prepackaging-best-practices/m-p/2039076#M32678 Texiwill 2008-12-16T15:22:41Z