Open vCenter
Select a matching template
Right click and choose
Enter the Name of the Server and select a folder
Select the cluster
Select the host in the cluster
Select the storage
Set the proper Network

Sysprep

You need to generalize after the cloning

Enter \windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep
Select OOBE And don’t forget

Rename-computer, change Name

Note: you should not use sconfig for this if you do not want to have the hostname
in capital letters

Start Powershell Enter “Powershell” at the prompt

Change Name of the Server

Rename-computer –NewName ComputerName

Reboot Server

Shutdown –r –t 0

Change IP Address to Fix

This can be done by sconfig as well

(just enter sconfig at the prompt)

Start Powershell Enter “Powershell” at the prompt

Identify the NIC

Get-NETIPInterface

Set the IP V4 address

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -IPAddress 172.20.100.20 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 172.20.100.1

Set the DNS address

Set-DNSClientServerAddress –InterfaceIndex 12 -ServerAddresses (“172.20.20.20”,“172.20.20.21”)

Configure the TCP/IP protocol with DNS settings

Nslookup

Enable Remote management

Enable-NetFirewallRule –displaygroup “Windows Remote Management”