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#CLONE VIRTUAL MACHINE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 INSTALL#
#CLONE VIRTUAL MACHINE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 GENERATOR#

If the virtual machine that you clone does not have an NVDIMM device, but has virtual PMem hard disks, the destination host or cluster must have an available PMem resource.

Otherwise, you cannot proceed with the task

If the virtual machine that you clone has an NVDIMM device and virtual PMem hard disks, the destination host or cluster must have an available PMem resource.

Read customization specifications on the root vCenter Server if you are customizing the guest operating system. Customize on the virtual machine or virtual machine folder if you are customizing the guest operating system. Assign network on the network to which you assign the virtual machine. Allocate space on the destination datastore or datastore folder. Assign virtual machine to resource pool on the destination host, cluster, or resource pool. Add new disk on the data center or virtual machine folder. Create from existing on the data center or virtual machine folder. Clone virtual machine on the virtual machine you are cloning. You must have the following privileges to clone a virtual machine:

#CLONE VIRTUAL MACHINE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 GENERATOR#

Nested ESXi enhancements in vSphere 6.If a load generator is running in the virtual machine, before you perform the clone operation, you must stop the load generator.

Well, that about does it! Hope you all enjoyed this post! esxcli storage vmfs snapshot resignature -l datastore1 Sed -i 's#/system/uuid.*#' /etc/vmware/esx.confĪt this point, you can shutdown the VM and convert it to a template for cloning use.Īfter cloning a VM, if you plan on joining it to a vCenter Server you will need to run the following on each cloned instance via SSH. To prepare the VM for cloning use, run the following: esxcli system settings advanced set -o /Net/FollowHardwareMac -i 1

#CLONE VIRTUAL MACHINE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 INSTALL#

(Optional) To update the latest version of the ESXi Host client, run the following: esxcli software vib install -v "" **At the time of this writing, the latest version is Build 11675023 as per profile used below, be sure to change the profile number** esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClientĮsxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190104001-standard \Įsxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient (Optional) To update ESXi to the latest version, connect to the host via SSH and run the following: Once the VM powers back on, log in and enable SSH so that we can run some additional commands to update the OS and prepare it for cloning use Disk2: 100GB (for VSAN capacity tier bound to NVME Controller thin provisioned)īe sure you connect the ESXi installation media and power on the VM to begin the installation.Disk1: 10GB (for VSAN cache tier bound to NVME Controller thin provisioned).Disk0: 16GB (bound to the default SCSI controller thin provisioned).CPU: 2 (Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS – checked on).So without further ado, let’s get to it!įor my ESXi VM, I will be configuring the following: Props to William for his excellent content on nested virtualization, which I’ve used a ton and will be leveraging here as well. In this post, I am going to show you the steps I ran through to create an ESXi 6.7 VM that I can convert to a template for later use. William Lam has an ESXi VM which can be downloaded from here, but I wanted to go ahead and create my own for use within my nested lab environments.

Nested virtualization is nothing new, and many of us use it for test or demonstration purposes since they can quickly be stood up or torn down. Disclaimer: The following is not supported by VMware.