Deploy VM with guest customization

[ShubhadaS]

Hi,

We have a requirement to create a Virtual machine with VM template, through vCO workflow with guest customization (for add disks, os patching, IP address and vLAN assignments etc).

I could create a VM with NO guest customization with a workflow ''Clone virtual machine, no customization", which is present under vcenter->virtual machine management->clone.

Now, how can I create a VM from a template WITH guest customization options mentioned above. Is there any workflow available? If no, how we can achieve this?

Regards,

Shubahda

[Manupa]

hi,

why don't you use this one:  "Clone, Windows with single NIC"

This is also a sample workflow (vCenter/Virtual Machine management / Clone / Windows Customization)

It creates a fresh custom spec for you, and adds it to your tepmplate after cloning it.

Or an other option is to create the custom spec in vCenter and import it.

Manuel

[Burke- · Accepted solution]

I second Manupa's suggestion. You should use one of the library workflows under: "/Library/vCenter/Virtual Machine management/Clone/Windows Customization" (or Linux Customization) category to create your cloned/customized vms. Then, you can add workflows from the "/Library/vCenter/Virtual Machine management/Device Management" category to further customize the hardware of the newly provisioned VM. Then, for software you could use workflows in the "/Library/vCenter/Guest operations" category to copy files to your new guest OS and then Run them within the guest.

[schistad]

Sorry for jumping in, but I'm looking for ways to reuse the custom specs in vCenter from within orchestrator but none of the prebuilt workflows seem to do this. Do you have any examples of how to point at a spec in vCenter rather than providing the entire sysprep answer file from variables?