Hello everyone,
I'm having an issue with templates. I created a Windows Server 2008 VM and then I converted it to a template. From there, I deployed a VM and customized it to have the proper hostname, IP, etc. Everything looks and performs great. I wanted to head back into the template in order to add some more applications, but when I attempted to start it (after converting it back to a VM) it yelled at me "Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/51142c9e-d2ce05cd-fc00-3085a9a227c3/New WinServer 08 Template/New WinServer 08 Template.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.".
This is because the VM I deployed from it is running and for some reason it is using the same vmdk. Why and how would this occur? If I browse the datastore, I can see that the new VM has its own vmdk file, so why is it using the template?
I have also tried to remove that VM from my inventory and then readding it to the inventory via its vmx file and I run into the same situation.
Any help would be great, thanks!