Hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about creating
a smartdeploy reference virtual machine within server 2019 so let's get started.
alright so hopefully you guys have your smartdeploy console up and running, we are going to click
on re-image devices.
Click on build virtual machine, it's going to start loading up and you're going to get
the build wizard Click on Next.
And within your virtualization software if you click on that drop down menu.
This is all the software that smartdeploy is compatible with.
I'm going to pick Hyper-V, and for your guest operating system you are able to click on
the drop down menu, and for Hyper-V, it has all supported operating systems but when you
pick it.
The next button doesn't highlight so I can't click on Next.
Right, so I clicked on Support Center took me to the website to look into how to create
a virtual machine and within their example, it looks like VMware Workstation works out
with no problem.
So I found myself a copy of VMware Workstation.
I got a copy of pro 12, because that's what supported it within smartdeploy I double clicked
on the folder, I double clicked on the VMware Workstation exe it started loading up, I clicked
on next.
Accept the license terms, Click on Next.
From here, Click on Next, I left everything as the default, Click on Next I just installed
it and it was installing and boom, and I licensed it, finished it and I was done, I double click
on the VMware Workstation pro to make sure it's up and running.
Plus I want to show you guys that there's no virtual machines that are running on this
console, I went back inside smartdeploy, clicked on build virtual machine, start loading up
got the build wizard, Click on Next.
And for the virtualization software I hit that drop down menu and I pick workstation
12 Pro because that's what I have the guest operating system here when you click on the
drop down menu and then pick your poison, I picked windows 10 x64, and then that next
button was highlighted so I clicked on next.
From here, give your virtual machine a name.
By default it drops it inside the smartdeploy folder, inside a folder core reference machines
so I left everything as the default, and I clicked on next from here I clicked on browse
and I picked my windows 10 64bit ISO file and I clicked on next.
Once you click Next.
It gives you a nice little checklist of what you need to do.
I kind of find a strange that smartdeploy does not automatically start the virtual machine
up for you, which is kind of weird.
It wants you to start the virtual machine, run all the Windows Updates manually install
all the applications that you want.
It also advise you not to sysprep the machine.
Once you have your Windows updates and all your applications installed within your reference
virtual machine just shut it down normally click Finish.
Because I pick VMware Workstation is going to prompt me How do you want to open up the
file so I picked VMware Workstation Click OK, and it loads up the console again with
that checklist, it wants me to start it up, push out all the Windows Updates also push
out all the applications and once I'm done just shut it down.
Now on the next video I'm going to show you guys how to capture it because I already did
that within my Hyper-V. I created the Hyper-V virtual machine and it's my template, only
thing I didn't do within this virtual machine is, I didn't sysprep it I just shut it down
normally.
that's the guys that is how we create a smartdeploy reference virtual machine within server 2019
we did it with VMware Workstation but you are able to create it with Hyper-V. The only
difference is that the console or smartdeploy console doesn't automatically open up Hyper-V,
these are a couple of things that I do not like about smartdeploy to being cool if it
opened up or located my Hyper-V server, and then automatically create it for me but it
doesn't do that, I have to actually manually create a virtual machine within my Hyper-V.
The next video that I'm going to show you guys dealing with smartdeploy is all about
capturing your reference image and I'm actually going to use a Hyper-V machine so stay tuned
for that other than that guys hopefully you guys enjoy make sure to hit that like button
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