Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 04: Prepare the Template for Clones

Before we begin roll out clones we neet to "protect" our parent VM and make it a template. This ensure we don't delete it or power it on.

Select the Windows2012R2_Base VM and click Edit virtual machine settings.

Select the Options tab, go to Advanced item and check the Enable Template mode checkbox.

Next we need to make a snapshot the Base VM. All our linked clones will be based on this snapshot.

Click on VM select  Snapshot > Take Snapshot...

Give it a name like Version 1.0 and provide a good description of it.

That's it - Now we are ready to start deploying the first VMs..

• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 01: Introduction
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 02: VMware Workstation 11
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 03: Base Template
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 04: Prepare the Template for Clones
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 05: Domain Controller
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 06: Gateway to the Internet
• Building a VMware Workstation Homelab - Part 07: Mail Server - Exchange 2010 SP2 on Windows 2012 R2