Working with Templates
Creating new virtual machines from an existing virtual machine saves a great deal of time and effort in a virtual environment and is one of the largest reasons that system administrators enjoy the change from a physical environment. Cloning requires that you have something to clone from, a standard image that serves as a mold from which to create the new virtual machines. To do that, they employ an idea called templates, which developed from the provisioning physical servers. A template is a golden image—a prebuilt, tested image that contains approved, corporate standard software. Administrators build an operating system deployment with some set of applications and tools. Once the most current patches are applied, the image ...
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