November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
There are two cloning modes in Proxmox 5.0:
Full Clone creates an identical copy of the VM, including the virtual disk image. This is a truly isolated VM since it is not dependent on the source template or VM in any way. Even if we delete the source template or VM, the newly deployed VM will still function without any issue. A Full Clone consumes as much storage space as the original VM since the virtual disk is also cloned. Full clones are useful when allocated resources are identical for all deployed VMs but the guest operating system may or may not be different.
A Linked Clone creates a duplicate of the original VM minus the original virtual disk image. This creates an additional blank disk image that is ...
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