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• Mark your Virtual Machine as Template

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    colour Blue title PROS

    : To power it on, you must mark the template as first.

  • Status
    colour Yellow title CONS

    : The VM will be billed for storage only (this might fit in the pros).

• Export the Virtual Machine as OVF to your VSS User space:

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    colour Blue title PROS

    : Storage free of charge. Can be downloaded and stored on your end.

  • Status
    colour Yellow title CONS

    : If you need to run it, you will have to deploy a new from OVF.

Mark the VM as Template

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions using the Portal

1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca

2. Look for the VM to Edit and click the ✏  button.

3. From the VM Tab, click on the Template toggle located at the top right corner.

   

4. Click on YES to confirm the conversion.

   

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions using the vss-cli

Usinghttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

1. Look for the vm moref to delete with the following command:

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   vss-cli compute vm ls

2. Submit the export request with the command:

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   vss-cli compute vm set <id-or-name> template --on

3. Once converted to template, the Virtual Machine will not be able to run, unless marked as VM.

Export the VM as OVF

Instructions using the vss-cli

Usinghttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

1. Look for the vm moref to export with the following command:

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   vss-cli compute vm ls

2. Submit the export request with the command:

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   vss-cli compute vm set <id-or-name> export

3. The task submitted will do two subtasks:

   1. Run the export from vSphere to OVF and downloading all VMDK files.

   2. Transfer the files to your VSS User Storage.

   3. Once complete, a notification will follow.

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