Specifications

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Thischapterdescribescreatingtemplatesandcloningvirtualmachines.
Thischaptercontainsthefollowingtopics:
 “UnderstandingTemplates”onpage 203
 “CreatingTemplates”onpage 204
 “EditingaTemplate”onpage 206
 “DeployingVirtualMachinesfromTemplates”onpage 207
 “DeletingTemplates”onpage 209
 “RegainingTemplates”onpage 210
 “CloningVirtualMachines”onpage 210
 “CreatingaScheduledTasktoCloneaVirtualMachine”onpage 212
Understanding Templates
Atemplateisamastercopyofavirtualmachinethatcanbeusedtocreateand
provisionnewvirtualmachines.Thisimagetypicallyincludesaspecifiedoperating
systemandconfigurationthatprovidesvirtualcounterpartstohardwarecomponents.
Typically,atemplateincludesaninstalledguestoperatingsystemandasetof
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applications.
Templatescoexistwithvirtualmachinesatanylevelwithinthetemplateandvirtual
machinedomain.Youcanordercollectionsofvirtualmachinesandtemplatesinto
arbitraryfoldersandapplyavarietyofpermissionstobothvirtualmachinesand
Working with Templates and
Clones
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