Creating a virtual machine

It's important to note that starting with vSphere 6.5 onwards, the legacy C#/thick/vSphere client has been retired and can no longer be used to manage ESXi hosts or vCenter. The vSphere Web Client will be the primary utility to manage the environment and alongside this, a new HTML5-based client has been introduced with a subset of the features of the vSphere Web Client. More details of this are covered in a knowledge base article KB—2147929: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147929.

Getting ready

Let's start by defining the means by which a virtual machine can be deployed, we can follow four methodologies:

1. Create through the standard New Virtual Machine wizard.
2. Deploy from a virtual machine template or clone from a VM that was preconfigured/precreated.
3. Deploy from an OVF template, from an internal or external repository.
4. Deploy virtual machine from a content library.

In this recipe, we will create a virtual machine following the standard new virtual machine workflow through...