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 Withclonesyoucanmakecopiesofavirtualmachinewithoutbrowsingahostfile

systemorworryingifyouhavelocatedalltheconfigurationfiles.Theexisting

virtualmachineiscalledtheparentoftheclone.Whenthecloningoperationis

complete,theclonebecomesaseparatevirtualmachine.Thesear

ethemain

aracteristicsofaclone:

 Changesmadetoaclonedonotaffecttheparentvirtualmachine.Changes

madetotheparentvirtualmachinedonotappearinaclone.

 Aclone’sMACaddressandUUIDaredifferentfromtheparentvirtual

machine.

Althoughacloneisaseparatevirtualmachine,ifthecloneisalinkedclone,itshares

virtualdiskswiththeparentvirtualmachine.See“TypesofClones”onpage 220.

Types of Clones

Twotypesofclonesareavailable:fullandlinked.

Full Clones

Afullcloneisacompleteandindependentcopyofavirtualmachine.Itsharesnothing

withtheparentvirtualmachineafterthecloningoperation.Ongoingoperationofafull

cloneisentirelyseparatefromtheparentvirtualmachine.

Becauseafullclonedoesnotsharevirtualdiskswiththeparentvirtualmachi

ne,full

onesgenerallyperformbetterthanlinkedclones.However,fullclonestakelongerto

createthanlinkedclones.Creatingafullclonecantakeseveralminutesifthefiles

involvedarelarge.

Thefullcloneduplicatesonlythestateofthevirtualmachineattheinstantofthe

cloningoperati

on.Thusthefullcl

onedoesnothaveaccesstoanysnapshotsthatmight

existoftheparentvirtualmachine.

Linked Clones

Alinkedcloneisacopyofavirtualmachinethatsharesvirtualdiskswiththeparent

virtualmachineinanongoingmanner.Alinkedcloneismadefromasnapshotofthe

parent.See“ScenariosforUsingMultipleSnapshots”onpage 203.Thisconservesdisk

spaceandallowsmultiplevirtualmachinestous

ethesamesoftwareinstallation.

CAUTIONYoucannotdeletethelinkedclonesnapshotwithoutdestroyingthelinked

clone.Youcansafelydeletethissnapshotonlyifyoualsodeletetheclonethatdepends

onit.

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