FlexVM allows to create templates from a Guest.
A template is a perfect copy of a Guest. When you convert a Guest into a Template, you'll be able to perform the following tasks:
Una plantilla es una copia perfecta de un Guest, al convertir un Guest en una plantilla el administrador podrá:
- Clone
- Copy
- Convert a Template into a Guest.
Using templates provide the following benefits when you manage virtual machines:
- templates save time and prevent errors when configuring settings while creating virtual machines
- they can be used as long term security copies of the virtual machines
- they make sure virtual machines are correctly created and installed. For example they can be used by big companies to the achieve consistency among virtual machines
- a template can not be modified. In order to do it, you must convert it into a Guest
In oder to create a Template, open the menu from the Guest (remember it shouldn't be associated to any Pool), and select "Convert".
El icono del Guest sin asignar pasara de ser:
The unassigned Guest icon will go from to
The Guest has just been converted into a Template.