Stopping Configurations; Cloning Configurations - VMware VLM3-ENG-CP - Lab Manager - PC User Manual

time, the lease choices reset up to the latest value determined by the
administrator.
c Click Checkout.
After a brief time, an undeployed copy of the library configuration appears in the
Workspace page.

Stopping Configurations

More than one option is available in the Workspace to stop a configuration.
Undeploy – Turns off all configuration virtual machines, freeing resources on the
Managed Server pool.
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Turn Off – Turns off all virtual machines in the configuration. Turning off a virtual
machine is the virtual equivalent of powering down a physical machine. The
configuration remains registered on the Managed Server pool.
The Turn On option reverses this operation.
Suspend – Suspends CPUs for all the virtual machines. The configuration remains
registered on the Managed Server pool.
The Resume option reverses this operation.

Cloning Configurations

You can clone your own configuration or configurations shared by other users.
A cloning operation creates a delta disk instead of copying an entire virtual hard disk.
This operation addresses virtual machine proliferation by using "referential
provisioning," a process that involves storing new changes but referring back to a chain
of delta disks. For each change, Lab Manager freezes the original delta disk and creates
a new one.
When you clone a configuration, Lab Manager assigns the same network parameters to
the cloned virtual machines. If you deploy the original and cloned configurations at the
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During the undeploy operation, an orderly shutdown of the virtual
machines does not exist. The undeploy operation "turns off" the
virtual machines before uninstantiating them, and removes them from
the Managed Server pool. For example, if you have an application open
on a Windows virtual machine, you must remember to save your work.
If you need to preserve the current state of the configuration, capture
the configuration to the configuration library.
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