Real-World Scenario

You have some scheduled maintenance planned on a production virtual machine. Before making the scheduled maintenance, you decide to make a copy of the production virtual machine by cloning it. You step through the cloning wizard and

it runs successfully and you now have a production VM and a new clone VM in which you will perform your scheduled maintenance.

Action Item:

Describe:

The reason you decided to make the clone VM

Who has access to that virtual machine

Discuss operations and backup strategies for the cloned VM.

Who has the clone VM been created for and why?

What simple changes can be made to the clone VM to clearly identify it as a Non

Production VM and to prevent any confusion with the production VM?

Will the passwords be the same in the cloned VM and the Production VM?

Will the clone VM be running all the time?

When will it be backed up?

How long will you keep the cloned VM?