Create a SCVMM 2008 template from a running virtual machine

Daniel Davies — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:43:47 +0000

So you’ve created your VM and know you would like to create a template so this VM can be distributed onto multiple VM’s.

SCVMM will take care of this for you, so there is no need to sysprep your machine as the template procedure does all this for you.

Please Beware that creating a template destroys the VM !!!

Creating a Template

1, Press the Virtual Machine Tab and go to your VM.

2, Turn off the VM and then single click the VM

3, Now the New Template option on the right hand window should be accessible, so press this.

4, If you then complete the wizard and hit create this should then start creating your template.

5, The Job pane will then pop up on your screen and start completing the steps that are shown below, once this has completed you’ve successfully made a template.

SCVMM 2008 R2 Forcefully Remove Virtual Server Host From SCVMM Console

Daniel Davies — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:48:24 +0000

You may have an issue where you are struggling to remove a hyper-v host for a reason such as you, re-installed the OS on the machine and not removing the SCVMM agent first and when you go to remove it from the SCVMM console it just fails as it can’t communicate with the hyper-v host.

To Forcefully remove the Hyper-V Host you first have to open SCVMM’s Powershell.

Then run the following command “Get-vmhost changetoservername | remove-vmhost –force” .

The Hyper-V host will now be gone.

Daniel Davies

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Create a SCVMM 2008 template from a running virtual machine

SCVMM 2008 R2 Forcefully Remove Virtual Server Host From SCVMM Console