VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

Chapter 10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a virtual machine
• Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
• Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine
• Attaching RDM to a virtual machine
• Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group
• Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine
• Creating a virtual machine snapshot
• Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
• Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot
• Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
• Consolidating snapshots
• Exporting a virtual machine

Introduction

A virtual machine emulates a physical machine with well-known hardware on which traditional operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux can ...