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Chapter 6 Setting Up Virtual Machine Templates
Clone a Virtual Machine Template
You can create a linked or a full clone of a virtual machine template to use the software installed on that virtual
machine template.
A linked clone operation creates a delta disk instead of copying the entire virtual hard disk. This operation
uses referential provisioning, which involves storing new changes but refers back to a chain of delta disks.
For each change, Lab Manager freezes the original delta disk and creates a new one.
A full ‐ clone operation copies all the delta disks and the base disk and consolidates them into a new base disk.
The original base disk remains unchanged. Lab Manager creates the cloned virtual machine template in the
current organization. The user performing the clone operation becomes the owner of the cloned virtual
machine template.
Create full clones when you want to dismantle the storage and move the virtual machine template to a
different server or maximize performance for virtual machines (for example, for certain production ‐ level
virtual machines).
To clone a virtual machine template
1 In the left pane, click VM Templates .
2 Move the pointer over the virtual machine template name and select Clone .
3 Type a name.
4 (Optional) Type a description.
5 Select a storage lease.
6 Select a deployment lease.
7 Select the type of clone that you want to create.
If you select Full Clone of Virtual Machine Template , select a datastore.
8 Click OK .
Deploying Virtual Machine Templates
Deploying a virtual machine template registers it with a resource pool and provides access to Lab Manager
operations at the virtual machine console level. By default, system administrators, administrators, template
creators, and application owners can deploy and undeploy virtual machine templates. You can only deploy
unpublished templates.
Deploy a Virtual Machine Template with Default Settings
When you deploy a virtual machine template with default settings, Lab Manager uses:
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Any Available resource pool option is used.
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The Power On After Deployment check box is selected.
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The deployment lease comes from the template properties.
To deploy a virtual machine template with default settings
Move the pointer over the virtual machine template name and select Deploy with defaults .
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You can create a full clone only on undeployed virtual machine templates.