HP OneView for VMware vCenter - Manual (Page 82)

11. Click Finish to create the specified VMs and datastores.
You can view the progress of the task in the Recent Tasks pane at the bottom of the vSphere
Client window.
TIP: No manual cache refresh is necessary. When a provisioning operation is complete,
the Storage Module for vCenter data is refreshed automatically.
Cloning a VM
You can clone one or more VMs from an existing VM.
The following rules apply when cloning VMs:
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Cloning a VM has the same prerequisites as creating a datastore. For more information, see
“Creating a datastore” (page 71) .
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The source VM must exist in the vSphere Client.
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The source VM must be in a stopped state.
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The file structure for the cloned VMs will match the original VM.
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The original VM can have multiple datastores, but each datastore should be on one disk only.
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If the original VM has multiple datastores, the new VM will have the same number of datastores.
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The cloned VMs use the same storage pool as the source VM.
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If snapshots are used for creating the new VMs and datastores, the original VM files cannot
be deleted.
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Each snapshot is created in the same storage pool as each source disk.
To clone one or more VMs from an existing VM:
1.
Start the vSphere Client and access HP Insight Management.
2. Use one of the following methods to start the Clone Virtual Machine wizard:
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Right-click a VM and select HP Insight Management
→Clone VM.
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In the vSphere Web Client, select Actions
→Clone VM on the HP Insight Management
page for a host or cluster.
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