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<p>Created page with &quot;== Deploy Hundreds of VMs Instatly via Forking == Alan Renouf (VMwarE) and Li Zheng (VMware) http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/ http://virtu-al.net/ == Ready VMs == * Fast...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Deploy Hundreds of VMs Instatly via Forking ==<br /> <br /> Alan Renouf (VMwarE) and Li Zheng (VMware)<br /> <br /> http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/<br /> <br /> http://virtu-al.net/<br /> <br /> == Ready VMs ==<br /> <br /> * Fast provisioning<br /> * Instant Boot<br /> * Low Memory<br /> * Low CPU<br /> <br /> All available with instant clone<br /> <br /> <br /> == Instant Clone ==<br /> <br /> VMware Instant Clone is now at your fingertips with the updated PowerCLI Extensions fling! - VMware PowerCLI Blog - VMware Blogs - https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/08/vmware-instant-clone-now-fingertips-new-powercli-extensions-fling.html<br /> <br /> How does it work?<br /> * splits work into preparation (expensive) and fork (cheap) paths<br /> <br /> Preparation:<br /> * boot parent, launch applications, load libraries into memory<br /> * freeze parent state<br /> * break large pages<br /> * pre-create and register any number of child VMs<br /> <br /> Fork phase:<br /> * child inherits parent VMs memory state (COW Copy on Write), device state (checkpoint), disk state (delta disk)<br /> <br /> Once powered on, forked child becomes a full linked clone (instant clone can share memory state, where linked clone only shares disk state)<br /> <br /> == Workflow ==<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> New-VM -Name Photon01 -ResourcePool &quot;clusterr1&quot;<br /> <br /> $parent = Get-VM -Name Photon01<br /> <br /> New-Snapshot -VM $parent -Name BeforeChildren<br /> <br /> Enable-InstantCloneVM -VM $parent -GuestUser &quot;root&quot; -GuestPassword &#039;vmware&#039;<br /> -PreQuiesceScript &quot;c:\instantclone\pre.sh&quot; -PostCloneScript &quot;c:\instantclone\customize.sh&quot;<br /> <br /> $parent = Get-InstantCloneVM Photon01<br /> <br /> $configSettings = @{<br /> &#039;ipaddress&#039; = &#039;...&#039;;<br /> &#039;netmask&#039; = &#039;255....&#039;;<br /> &#039;gateway&#039; = &#039;...&#039;;<br /> }<br /> <br /> $child = new-InstantCloneVM<br /> ` -ParentVM $parent<br /> ` -name &quot;clone01&quot;<br /> ` -ConfigParams $conifgSettings<br /> ` -pPersistent<br /> <br /> $child | Start-VM<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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