This recipe focuses on importing VMware templates to VMM. In VMM 2016, the VMware virtual machine disk (.vmdk
) file is not copied/moved to the VMM library while importing a VMware template. Instead, VMM copies the metadata associated with the VMware template and the VMDK file remains in the VMware datastore.
Employing this approach when using templates, VMM allows you to deploy VMs more efficiently and quickly. Moreover, VMM 2016 does not delete the source template.
Carry out the following steps to configure the BMC settings:
- On the
Library
workspace in the VMM console, on theHome
tab in the ribbon, click onImport VMware Template
. - Select the VMware template(s) to import and click on
OK
. - To confirm that the template(s) adding was successful, expand
Templates,
and click onVM Templates
in theLibrary
pane.