VM Templates

While anyone can create a VM template, only a few know tips and tricks for making a reliable, small, and secure VM template on VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Those tips & tricks are below! Prerequisites To succeed while following these instructions you will need: Create a New VM First, we need a fresh VM. Make the new VM the latest virtual hardware version you can. See “Upgrade VM Hardware Versions” for more discussion on this. Choose the right operating system. In this case, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is in the list. I create all my template VMs as 2 CPU, 4 …

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While anyone can create a VM template, only a few know tips and tricks for making a reliable, small, and secure VM template on VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation using Rocky Linux 9. Those tips & tricks are below! Prerequisites To succeed while following these instructions you will need: Create a New VM First, we need a fresh VM. Make the new VM the latest virtual hardware version you can. See “Upgrade VM Hardware Versions” for more discussion on this. Choose the right operating system. In this case, Rocky Linux is in the list. Alternately, you could choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for EL-family Linux distributions. I create …

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