4.5. Creation and Migration of Virtual Machines

Understanding the building blocks that VMM offers to help administrators define virtual machines and templates is an important prerequisite to discussing the creation and migration of virtual machines. VMM offers several avenues for creating a virtual machine and placing it on a virtual machine host. Once a virtual machine is placed on a virtual machine host, migration also plays an important part in its life cycle.

4.5.1. New Virtual Machine Variations

The previous section covered the template concept in VMM. Templates are great if you want to standardize on a few virtual machine models for your environment. In many cases, however, chargeback is associated with a specific configuration of a virtual ...

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