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".
The unassigned Guest icon will go from 
to 
The Guest has just been converted into a Template.