Step 1 – From the Home menu, click on Content Libraries. You can restore computer disks from Veeam Agent backups created using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and convert them to disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX. Today’s post is thus aimed at showing if content libraries are now truly a viable solution to centrally managing templates and other content.įor this example, I’m using vCSA 6.5 U1 and a vSAN datastore which I’ll use as the storage for the library. With vSphere 6.5, VMware has addressed these shortcomings in response to user feedback. Another let down was the inability to update library templates and apply guest customization to a VM deployed from a library template. This format works for both VMware and VirtualBox. To begin with, mounting an ISO file from a content library to a VM, was not supported. In this video, I will show you how to convert an ISO file to VMDK file format. When content libraries were first released, they lacked some basic functionality which made them not particularly suited for the job.
How many times have you placed an ISO image on a datastore only to forget where the minute you need to mount it? Content libraries, in theory at least, are a far cry from the traditional way of managing templates and other file types by simply putting them on one or more datastores. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, choose Images > Convert, select the disk image file you want to convert, then click Open. Just create a new VM and attach the ISO into the virtual CD-ROM drive. In An Overview of vSphere 6 Content Libraries, I discuss the benefits of using content libraries to manage VM templates and ISOs from a single repository. To do this, in the vSphere client, select configuration, right click on the datastore and select browse datastore: Create.
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