Louisiana VMware Users Group

I’ve found that from time to time, “Deploy virtual machine from this template” will be grayed-out and prevents me from deploying a new VM from template.

This is a known issue: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=51923&start=0&tstart=0

Quick fix:
Right click on your orphaned template

Select “Remove from Inventory” 
From the host you would like the template to reside on…

Select you host
Select the “Configuration” tab

Select “Storage” under the Hardware pane
Double click on the storage device in the right pane..this will bring up the “Datastore Browser”

Browse to your orphaned template’s location
Right click on the template file..it will have a “.vmtx” extention with the Type displayed as “Template VM”
 Choose “Add to Inventory”
Go through and answer the wizard information to complete the “fix”

Thanks,
Will