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vSphere VMID overwritten from template

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phowarth

Hi.

i've used vSphere Synchroniser to initially bring in all our VMs, then I choose to rename and move some out into a subfolder for important VMs.

I've saved one as a template and changed the Custom Image, and blanked the VMID in the template.

Now when I apply the template to all the VMs (Edit > Special Actions > Convert from Template), it deletes the VMID from the VM session entries
as the value is blank in the template.

Is there a way to prevent overwriting certain properties that are specific to entry types - I know we can "keep" the name, image, description, etc etc when we apply the template, but VMID isn't one of the options to keep as it's configured within the entry type.

Screenshots in order show the progression from working VM (from the synchroniser) to non-working VM once the template is applied.

Peter

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All Comments (4)

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Christian Robert

Hello,

Your thread has been moved to the Windows support forum.

Best regards,
Christian

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Carl Marien

Hello,

I was able to successfully reproduce the behavior on my side. When applying a template where the VMID field is left blank, it does overwrite and clear the existing VMID on the entries.

I’ve gone ahead and opened a bug report with our development team so they can further investigate this behavior.

I’ll keep you updated as soon as I have more information or progress to share.

Best regards,

Carl Marien

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phowarth

Thanks Carl, that's great.

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Michael Beaudin

Hello Peter,

The convert with template wasn't really created with the intention of converting from one entry type to the same entry type. This is why we only have the "global" settings as a "keep" option as they are the only ones that make sense cross entry type.

Before going further down this path, I would like to know if there is a reason you could not add the template to the "Settings" tab of your VMWare synchronizer entry. Is the template really only needed for a specific subset of what you are synchronizing?

I believe that if you had added your template here you would have the behavior you want.



Please do let me know if this would be good enough for you or if you have limitations that would make this a bad solution.

Best Regards,

Michaël Beaudin

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