Templates are created from regular Guests, executing on them a "convert" operation.

A template is special kind of Guest. After converting a Guest into a Template, the administrator will be able to generate new clone Guests based on the template. With flexVDI, clone creation is instant. This operation is the base of Volatile Desktops. A clone is a machine that begins with the disk of the base template, without duplicating the content of such disk, with the consequent disk space savings.

The task that can be executed on a template are:

Clone
Copy
Convert (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 ensure that deployed virtual machines are correctly created and installed and that they are identical, achieving consistency among user virtual machines.
They ensure that 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, it must be converted back into a Guest

In order to create a Template, open the menu from the Guest, and select "Convert".

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The Guest icon will go from to

This means that the Guest has just been converted into a Template.