Tag: vmware
Building a 2008 R2 template VM
by rxtx on Mar.12, 2010, under Sysadmin
Building a template is something you don’t do very often – you tend to do it once and then forget about it. Today I had to make a Windows 2008 R2 template VM for VMware, but luckily I found a handy guide which had done all the hard work for me.
If you use it yourself its worth looking at each setting and asking if it applies to your environment. Some of the settings will probably be set by your GPOs anyway once you add machines deployed from it to your domain, other bits are just slightly anal and unnecessary.
As a side note 2008 R2 only supports 64 bit processors, so make sure your environment is capable fo this before you proceed.