VMware VirtualCenter 1.0 Support DocumentationFeatures | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums Working with Templates This chapter describes creating and importing templates. A template is a golden image of a virtual machine that can be used as a master copy to create and provision new virtual machines. Create these golden images and add them as templates to VirtualCenter. VirtualCenter catalogs and manages the templates. VirtualCenter displays a list of available templates with a name and a brief description. The templates can be stored in a template upload directory which is a directory local to the VirtualCenter management server or on a VMFS volumes in a SAN. You need a Virtual Machine Administrator role assigned to the hosts where the templates is deployed. This chapter contains the following sections:
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