HX Data Platform Ready Clones Overview
HX Data Platform Ready Clones is a pioneer storage technology that enables you to rapidly create and customize multiple cloned VMs from a host VM. It enables you to create multiple copies of VMs that can then be used as standalone VMs.
A Ready Clone, similar to a standard clone, is a copy of an existing VM. The existing VM is called the host VM. When the cloning operation is complete, the Ready Clone is a separate guest VM.
Changes made to a Ready Clone do not affect the host VM. A Ready Clone's MAC address and UUID are different from that of the host VM.
Installing a guest operating system and applications can be time consuming. With Ready Clone, you can make many copies of a VM from a single installation and configuration process.
Clones are useful when you deploy many identical VMs to a group.
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The Hyper-V Host issues an Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) request to create a full file copy. HyperFlex uses cloning technology to create an instantaneous copy as a response to the full copy request. |