This section describes the procedures for creating virtual machines from a virtual hard disk, a template, an existing virtual machine, a physical server (P2V conversion), or an existing VMware virtual machine (V2V conversion).

View supported operating systems

View supported hardware capabilities

Create a virtual machine from a template

Create a virtual machine from an existing virtual hard disk

Create a virtual machine with a blank virtual hard disk

Clone a virtual machine

Configure hardware

Customize the operating system of a virtual machine


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