Creating a new guest
Virtualization offers you the ability to create new virtual guests quickly and easily on the underlying ESXi host. You can create your hosts using a GUI, but it's possible to define and create hosts entirely from the command line.
This recipe shows you how to achieve this by creating a VMware configuration file and importing it using the ESXi shell.
Getting ready
You'll need an ESXi host that has SSH enabled.
How to do it...
Let's create a new guest using SSH onto your ESXi host:
- SSH onto your ESXi host, and change directory to your default data store using the following command:
cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore1
- Next, you need to create a place to hold the VM files. You can do this by using the
mkdir
command:mkdir examplevm
- Now, you ...
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