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18 PS Series Template Volumes and Thin Clones: How and When to Use Them | TR1063
There are a variety of other things that can be done to these environments that are beyond the scope of this
document, for example:
 Assign a second network adapter, assign new IP addresses to it, and have it residing on a reachable
switch so that developers can remote into the environment or copy files across a network share.
 Take advantage of snapshots and allow developers to roll back their own test environments.
 Detach the thin clone into a full set of volumes and bring those virtual machines into production.
Administrators can also use these same concepts and apply them to sys-prepped virtual machines or virtual
desktops to provide space-efficient, thin-cloned environments based on the various needs they have. This is
just an example of some of the powerful ways that thin clones can be used in a VMware environment.