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Yes you do. You can download the sysprep files from the deploy.cab file on the W2K3 CD/DVD.<br />
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~coolsport00
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Yes you do. You can download the sysprep files from the deploy.cab file on the W2K3 CD/DVD.

~coolsport00

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&quot;Joshuabt&quot;...was this sufficient for you?<br />
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Thanks.<br />
~coolsport00
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"Joshuabt"...was this sufficient for you?

Thanks.
~coolsport00

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Hello, coolsport00<br />
Thank you for your response and sorry for late response on my end.<br />
If I want to keep the .vmdk as a master drive ( template ) so that I don't have to run SysPrep everytime I create a VM from a cloned copy of this drive, what parameter do I have provide?<br />
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Thanks,
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Hello, coolsport00
Thank you for your response and sorry for late response on my end.
If I want to keep the .vmdk as a master drive ( template ) so that I don't have to run SysPrep everytime I create a VM from a cloned copy of this drive, what parameter do I have provide?

Thanks,

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Thank you, CoolSport00.<br />

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Hello,<br />
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There are multiple VMs running in VMWare ESXi 4.0 and a new VM needs be created with Windows 2003 R2 SP2.<br />
Instead of creating a new .vmdk, I want to use a template .vmdk file with the same OS that I saved earlier.<br />
Do I have to run SysPrep to avoid duplicate SIPs?<br />
<br />
Thank you for your help.
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Hello,

There are multiple VMs running in VMWare ESXi 4.0 and a new VM needs be created with Windows 2003 R2 SP2.
Instead of creating a new .vmdk, I want to use a template .vmdk file with the same OS that I saved earlier.
Do I have to run SysPrep to avoid duplicate SIPs?

Thank you for your help.

VMWare VM and SysPrep

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.