Chapter 3. Managing Virtual Machines

In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:

  • Deploying the first virtual machine
  • Cloning a virtual machine to a template
  • Deploying new virtual machines from a template
  • Importing a virtual appliance from OVA
  • Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine
  • Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
  • Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine
  • Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine
  • Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines
  • Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI
  • Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI