VMware VirtualCenter 1.1 Support Documentation

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. This chapter contains the following sections:

• Understanding Templates
• Preparing for Templates
• Creating Templates
• Cloning a Template
• Deleting a Template
• Editing a Template
• Reimporting a Template

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 server or on a VMFS volumes in a SAN.

You need to use a Virtual Machine Administrator role assigned to the hosts where the templates is deployed.