Creating a VM from a snapshot

[fborges555]

Hi all

I am trying to create a new VM from a snapshot , google show me how to do it using WS , I connect to vcenter , pick the master image snapshot I want to clone/create but then I get the following

" you cannot make a clone of a shared or remote Virtual machine"

  con some one help me please on how to do this and create a new VM from a snapshot? my vcenter is old and there is no option to clone from within vcenter(5.1) when you right click the snapshot nothing come up, guess that is why they want you to use WS

Thanks for all the help

[Alex_Romeo]

HI,

You can convert the machine you want to clone into Template, then create a new virtual machine from that template, modifying hostname, IP and SID. When you have finished creating the new VM with the modified parameters, you can convert the template back to a virtual machine.

ARomeo

[Scott Vessey]

If you mean from an old state/snapshot, you would need to revert the VM to that snapshot first.

If you then wanted the original VM to get back to the most recent state, you’d need to take a new snapshot before doing the initial revert and clone, then revert to that new snapshot afterwards and delete it.

[fborges555]

Thanks A/S

so bottom line is that, from a snapshot, old or current , a new vm cant be created from that specifc snapshot, is this correct?

Thanks a bunch

[sk591]

You cannot create a new VM from a snapshot alone. However, cloning the VM or converting the VM to a template would provide you capability to spin up new VMs accordingly.

Hope this helps!