Whats the best way to make 200 VMs

[limmm]

Off of one vm that is already created? We are attempting to QA our customer desktop environment of over 2000 desktops; we want to make 200 vms say 180 vista 20 os x; what would be the best and most efficent approach?

Doing a bit of research it seems that

Use vmkfstools -i to clone disks from already installed VM (Step 1). vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VM/VM.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore/NEWVM/NEWVM.vmdk

is one way and cloning is another.

If anyone has done this before it'll be much appreciated if you could shine some light on this problem.. thanks!

[depping]

Powershell would be by far the easiest to do this. You might want to look into this script:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6972

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[AntonVZhbankov]

I recommend to take a look at VMware View for Windows desktops.

AFAIK OS X is not supported as guest OS for ESX VM.

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[Troy_Clavell]

I agree with Anton. Utilizing VMware View and linked clones you can probably have 200 desktops knocked out in less then 1 hour.

Also, there is not solution for virtualizing MAC OS within VMware that I am award of either.

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