VMware Virtual Machine Template - Windows Server 2008 R2

Update: 2013/03/29

Virtual Machine Template Virtual Machine Templates come in very handy when you want to have a repository of Virtual Machine base or images that you can easily create a virtual machine from. This saves you the time of installing/configuring the operating system, installing regular common applications and patching the system.

Here are a few references I found to create my Windows Server 2008 R2 Template on a VMware environment Create, Install and Config

• Jason Samuel-How to Build a VMware vSphere VM Template for Windows Server 2008 R2

• VMPros Blog-VMware: My favorite Windows 2008R2 template configuration

• Jeremy Waldrop’s Blog-How to Build a Windows 2008 VMware ESX VM Template

• Shawn Ross IT Blog-Creating a Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) vSphere 4.1 VM Template

• Effin Blog-Creating an Activated Windows Server 2008 R2 VMware Template using Microsoft Sysprep

• Solori-In-the-Lab: Windows Server 2008 R2 Template for VMware

• Abiquo-VM Template Guide

• Abiquo-Generating VM Templates Performance and Tweak

• Citrix - CPU and Power Tweak

• Fix Slow Mouse on Windows Server 2008 Guest Os