Instant Clone TECHNOLOGY provides a new, dramatically accelerated means to provision virtual machines in VSPHERE. With Instant Clone technology, a booted-up parent VM can be quiesced and “hot-cloned” to produce derivative (child) VMs rapidly, leveraging the same disk and memory of the parent VM, with the clone starting in an already “booted-up” state. This process bypasses the cycle time incurred with traditional cloning, where several power cycle and reconfiguration calls are usually MADE. When administrators combine Instant Clone technology with App Volumes and User Environment Manager, they can rapidly spin up desktops for users that retain user customization and PERSONA from session to session, even though the desktop itself is destroyed when the user logs out.

Instant Clone technology provides a new, dramatically accelerated means to provision virtual machines in vSphere. With Instant Clone technology, a booted-up parent VM can be quiesced and “hot-cloned” to produce derivative (child) VMs rapidly, leveraging the same disk and memory of the parent VM, with the clone starting in an already “booted-up” state. This process bypasses the cycle time incurred with traditional cloning, where several power cycle and reconfiguration calls are usually made. When administrators combine Instant Clone technology with App Volumes and User Environment Manager, they can rapidly spin up desktops for users that retain user customization and persona from session to session, even though the desktop itself is destroyed when the user logs out.