Solved: Templates

Thought as much, is there a quick way to tell if something is a template before you deploy it because from a cursory glance the files look the same as a normal VM?

lamw · ‎08-11-2010

Yes, it'll have a different icon than normal VM.

I just did a quick search on google images and here is one that shows a normal VM and a template -

The template construct is really just a logical container, an offline VM can always be converted to a template and vice-a-versa

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Rhidian · ‎08-11-2010

These icons are from vCenter, basically I have a bunch of what I belive are VM's on a USB disk if I add them by uploading to the datastore and then click and add to inventory everything works ok, but when I try and power them on I get an error message stating that the vmdk is not a valid..... These VM's have been take from an ESX 4.0 installation and I'm trying to migrate them to ESXi 4.0 and was wondering if the problem could be that they are templates not actual VM's??

VMware “Cannot open the disk ‘XXXXXX.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on...

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