I’m ready to start planning my upgrade to virtual center 2.5. I’m looking through old post on this site and searching other vmware blogs to make sure I have all my bases covered. I’m going to start collecting all the links and post I find right here. So if you have any to add that I missed. Please leave a comment.
Thanks,jb
RTFM Education – Upgrade Guide to ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5
Posted by jayb | Posted on 06-06-2008
Category : Post from around the Net, technology, vmware
Tags: lan, microsoft, pdf, upgrade, virtual center, vmware, windows, wol, WP
I’m going to upgrade my Virtual Center next week, this is a really good tip to keep handy.
A few people have notice that since upgrading to Virtualcenter 2.5 deploying a Windows 2003 VM from template no longer gives them the ability to customize. The option is disabled.
The fix for this is simple. You need to grab the new deployment tools from Microsoft’s site here also referred to as the sysprep files. You will be downloading WindowsServer2003-KB892778-SP1-DeployTools-x86-ENU.cab
This file needs to be extracted on the Virtualcenter server and placed in the following folder-
All Users\Application Data\Vmware\VirtualCenter\sysprep\svr2003
Once these files exist in the correct folder, you will be able to deploy your W2K3 template.
For more details read the Virtual Center 2 Template Usages and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vc_2_templates_usage_best_practices_wp.pdf
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Customization fails after VC 2.5 Upgrade
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