10 1.Cloning VMs 1.iNtroducing vSphere Instant Cloning a The instant Clone feature will create vms that run in the exact state their source vm does by leveraging a few technologies: vMotion Transparent Page Sharing, and delta disks The Instant Clone works is completely different o The result is more or less the same, in that you still get a new VM, but you don't get brand new copies of the virtual disks or in-guest memory for unning vms o Instant Clone uses a function known as copy-on-write to share both memory and disk data with the source VM, and only making a copy of the changes when the cloned VM needs to modify something o That way, it can keep a single copy of all data without needing to duplicate anything, and it can create new VMs based on the same original VM very quickly 河南中医药大学/阮晓龙/13938213680/htp/cloudxg.hactcm.edu.cn/http:/www5ucwebcn