can powercli import a template

[Squigglymonkey]

I moved a couple of templates over to another ESX host. Can I import/register or somehow get them to work?

[LucD]

You have to give a few more details.
Are these ESXi nodes under the same vCenter?

Is there shared storage between those ESXi nodes?

[Squigglymonkey]

There are 2 vcenter clusters. I can have a LUN/datastore presented back and forth between them.
I created a couple of templates on one vcenter, placed them on the transferrable datastore and had it presented to the other vcenter cluster.
I see a cmdlet new-template, it kind of looks like this is possibility.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Yes, if the storage on which the Template is located is visible on the target ESXi node, you can use the New-Template cmdlet with the TemplateFilePath parameter to register the template.

But if that storage is only attached for a short while, you will have to clone the Template.

That can be done with the Template parameter on that same cmdlet.

[Squigglymonkey]

struggling.... lets call the vcenter 'vcenter2' and the transferrable lun/datastore 'transfer1' in it is a container named contatinerDB1 and in that are the  template files including templateDB.vmtx

I connect to the vcenter2 with powercli and run this command

new-template -templatefilepath "transfer1 containerdb1\templatedb.vmtx" -location "transfer1 containerdb1"
I get an error could not find vi container  transfer1 containerdb1
I would like to get this template registered where it is, I'd rather not copy it anywhere, as that would just be more time..... I'll create a VM from it and I'll be done with it then!

[LucD]

You didn't mention that the Template was stored in a Container.
That changes the story.

You would have to replicate the Container to the other vCenter.
But cloning a Template from a Container is not possible at the moment afaik.

[Squigglymonkey]

Container is probably the wrong word, it's a folder not in a kuernetes container

[LucD]

You mean a Folder in the vCenter hierarchy?

[Squigglymonkey]

What worked was:

new-template -TemplateFilePath "[DatastoreName] foldername\template.vmtx" -vmhost hostname -location "folder-in-vcenter"