Trying to create a Template from VM using PowerCLI

[gopalreddy577]

Hello Experts, 

I am new to VMware environment, and We have a small setup with Free license ESXI Host.

I uploaded some windows 2016.ISO file to datastore and created a VM. 
Now I am trying to create a Template out of it and create a New VM with that template. And also store that template in datastore

I am using the commands below to create a Template:

$EXSI_HOST = ""

$HostUsername = ""

$HostPassword = ""

$Datastore = ""

$sourceVMName = ""

$TemplateName = ""

# Connect to the ESXi host or vCenter Server

Connect-VIServer -Server $EXSI_HOST -User $HostUsername -Password $HostPassword

$SourceVM = (Get-VM -Name $sourceVMName).Name

$datacenter = (Get-Datacenter).Name

$datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $Datastore).Name

$Template = New-Template -VM $SourceVM -Location $datacenter -Name $TemplateName -Datastore $datastore -Confirm:$false

But I am unable to create the template. Getting below error:
New-Template: 7/27/2023 9:00:04 PM New-Template The operation for the entity "Template_VM" failed with the following message: "The operation is not supported on the object."

Need some inputs on this. Even when I logged in the same in the ESXI UI

 

[Sachchidanand Upadhyay]

Please go through the below document, hope this will help you creating Template from VM:

https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/73d6de02-05fd-47cb-8f73-99d1b33aea17/850c6b63-eb82-4d9c-bfcf-79279b5e5637/doc/New-Template.html

Regards,

Sachchidanand

[LucD]

You need a vCenter for cloning VMs this way.