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With the Server 2022 template created and added to vCenter, the next step is to create VMs from the template. The decision is whether to use Server 2019 or 2022. I prefer to use the latest server OS when creating new VMs. The decision rests on whether the software vendor for the software used on the new VMs supports the latest server OS. We use the VMs built in this article for the first three Microsoft infrastructure servers: two domain controllers and a certificate authority. This article covers creating the VMs from a template in both VMware vCenter and Citrix XenCenter. My lab’s infrastructure VMs reside in my XenServer pool, as explained in the Introduction article.
With the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2022, I added this new article to the series.