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13 PS Series Template Volumes and Thin Clones: How and When to Use Them | TR1063
1. Create new users for the developers: Developer1, Developer2, Developer3.
2. Create folders in vCenter to isolate the test environments: Developer1, Developer2, Developer3.
3. Create isolated vSwitches for the test environments to live on — Developer1, Developer2,
Developer3 — and assign no physical NICs to them. When the test environments are created from
the thin clone, the virtual NICs of the VMs will be associated with the vSwitch of the developer
environment. This will isolate them and make sure they cannot impact production systems or other
thin clone systems but can still work together in their own environment.
Note: If you are not using vDS switching, DRS and vMotion of virtual machines across different hosts will
impact the ability of these VMs to communicate inside the isolated test environment. Once the VMs are
configured, change the DRS rules so that all of the VMs in a single the developer environment must reside
on the same ESXi host.
DRS rule configuration