topic Unable to Clone with OS Spec in Netapp VSC 2.1.2 in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Unable-to-Clone-with-OS-Spec-in-Netapp-VSC-2-1-2/m-p/6828#M629 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />Running all the latest updates (incluing VM Tools)<BR />When trying to deploy from NetApp VCS Rapid Cloning Utility<BR />In a SAN environment，I get the following error.</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Customize virtual machine guest OS</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Product-001</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Customization of the guest operating system 'winXPProGuest' is not supported in this configuration. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware Tools versions. Refer to vCenter documentation for supported configurations.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">CORP\Administrator</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">vc01.corp.co-founding.com</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">2012/2/7 15:39:53</SPAN></P><P></P><P>vCenter Host and the Host being cloned is Windows Server Standard 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit<BR />But no problem in the NAS (NFS) environment</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:35:30 GMT yansi_chen 2025-06-05T06:35:30Z Unable to Clone with OS Spec in Netapp VSC 2.1.2 https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Unable-to-Clone-with-OS-Spec-in-Netapp-VSC-2-1-2/m-p/6828#M629 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />Running all the latest updates (incluing VM Tools)<BR />When trying to deploy from NetApp VCS Rapid Cloning Utility<BR />In a SAN environment，I get the following error.</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Customize virtual machine guest OS</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Product-001</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Customization of the guest operating system 'winXPProGuest' is not supported in this configuration. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware Tools versions. Refer to vCenter documentation for supported configurations.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">CORP\Administrator</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">vc01.corp.co-founding.com</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">2012/2/7 15:39:53</SPAN></P><P></P><P>vCenter Host and the Host being cloned is Windows Server Standard 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit<BR />But no problem in the NAS (NFS) environment</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:35:30 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Unable-to-Clone-with-OS-Spec-in-Netapp-VSC-2-1-2/m-p/6828#M629 yansi_chen 2025-06-05T06:35:30Z Re: Unable to Clone with OS Spec in Netapp VSC 2.1.2 https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Unable-to-Clone-with-OS-Spec-in-Netapp-VSC-2-1-2/m-p/6833#M630 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is a known issue for SAN environments.&nbsp; It has been fixed in the upcoming VSC 4.0 release.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:03 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Unable-to-Clone-with-OS-Spec-in-Netapp-VSC-2-1-2/m-p/6833#M630 costea 2012-02-07T13:00:03Z