Tech Journal 6 Virtual Machine - SYSAD36/Tech-Journal---Cloud-Virtualization GitHub Wiki

  • Detailed documentation on how you successfully completed this weeks lab. Fellow SYS350 students should be able to reproduce the lab using your documentation. (10 Points)
  • Research and document an alternative method for completing this lab. An additional 1-2 bonus points will be awarded (depending on complexity) for successful implementation and documentation of your alternative method.

  1. The first thing you need to do is pull a virtual machine from somewhere. For me I just logged into the studentshared folder for our school and pulled a random Windows 10 machine and downloaded it to my desktop.

  2. You need to upload that file into Vsphere and boot it. This requires you to drag it into one of the datastores that we made in the previous weeks.Right click on the server you want it to be on and click deploy machine. When it asks you what file you want to use, find it from your datastore, most of defaults should be fine and click deploy and wait for it to finish.

  3. Once you have booted your virtual machine and have proved that you can access it through vsphere, you need to make it into a template. This is doen by right clicking the machine and clicking make template. Make sure that you have downloaded some programs such as winrar or putty.

  4. Now that we have the template for our windows machine we need to make a customization specification. This is doen by going to the home screen and clicking Customization Specifications Manager. From here you follow what need to edit on the machine. To test it we can change the timezone or have it run a command from the command line. Make sure that when you get to the section called Customize Guest OS you select the template we made it in step 3.

  5. Now the only thing to do is run the machine. To do this right click the server you want it to be on and deploy the template we just customized. When it boots, you should notice the commannds run quickly in the background as well as the timezone that you set in the bottom right as well as the programs you downloaded on the template.