Comments on: VMware ESX Deploy Template Wizard and MS SYSPREP – Guest Customization Grayed Out

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:20:52 +0000

I’m having an issue with deploying 2003 vm’s. According to vmware (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005593)the sysprep files required to deploy/customize 2003sp1 and 2003sp2 vm’s are to be stored in the svr2003 folder located on the vCenter server. However, 2003sp1 and 2003sp2 require different versions of the sysprep.exe file thereby overwriting one another when placed in the svr2003 folder. With that said, how is it possible to deploy both versions in your environment if they require different sysprep? At this point, my 2003sp1 customization fails as the 2003sp2 sysprep was placed in the svr2003 folder as instructed by vmware.

By: CCoulange

CCoulange — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:47:18 +0000

Any suggestion for JMason post ?

I have exactly the same problem…. with the same infrastructure.
My Win 2003 is R2 SP2 32bit.

Thanks.

By: Jmason

Jmason — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:31:41 +0000

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i cannot get the cusomtizations to apear for windows 2003 R2 32bit

I have vcenter on 2008 and have installed Sp1 and Sp2 sysprep to the sysprep\svr2003 folder in programdata\vmware\

please see the attached for the directory contents

any help appriciated

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:44:19 +0000

Hi,

I have few question regarding installing template in the virtual machine. First thing, is it possible to install any template in a Virtual Machine? I tried installing template but I am getting an error like “Number of CPUs. Expected value: 1, found: 0″. But the VM already has a CPU present and detectable albeit through the system information.

I am intending to achieve virtualization using the VM in template environment for trial. This VM contains RAM of 8GB and Disk space of 150 GB.

The installation started fine with the regulation template screens but failed later with the above error.

By: shirish

shirish — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:30:36 +0000

or XP sp3 what folder we need to create in sysprep folder. i downloaded the deploy.cab, extracted and replaced the contents with new XP sp3 files .Still i face problem, it gives error ” customization failed” at the end of deployment stage.

Please help.

Regards,
Shirish

By: Nathan Hammes

Nathan Hammes — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:29:53 +0000

No – you don’t run Sysprep.exe on the VC – that will basically wipe it out. You just need to copy the appropriate versions of Sysprep into the correect directories on the VC server. I believe the default path is “C:\D&S\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep” – there you need to create the directories (if not already created) for each different version of sysprep…

Hope that helps.

Nate