# VM Templates

### View VM Templates 

Navigate to the Resource Provider -> VConnect, then click a connection.  Click ‘VM Templates’ and the available templates are shown. 

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### Publish VM Templates 

Select the templates that to publish and click the icon ‘Publish to Gallery’ and the selected templates will be available for deployment in the tenant. 

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### Unpublish VM Templates 

Select the templates to unpublish and click the icon ‘Remove from Gallery’ and the templates will be removed for deployment in tenant. 

### Create, Edit or Delete a VM Template 

Creating a Virtual Machine Template includes scenarios like Domain Join a virtual machine, specifying the type of Data Store to place the virtual machine in, adding installation scripts on start of the virtual machine, specifying a network name to join the virtual machine to, deciding which parameters the tenants can override. 

* Select the OS platform  
* The list of templates available in the datacenter will be shown in the drop down. 
* Choose a template and the section of params to be configured for the template will be shown. 
* They can be configured by tenant if the admin wants to allow them. 

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### Clone a VM Template 

* Select a template from the list of templates in the view and click the clone button. 
* The original template name (read only) and the new name text boxes are shown. 
* Enter the new template name. 
* Click ‘Clone’ button. 

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### Configure Params 

Drill down to each template to view the parameters configured in them.  The admin can add custom parameters and edit them. 

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