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Chapter 7 Working with Configurations Combine Workspace Configurations You can combine workspace configurations by cloning some or all of a configuration's virtual machines to another configuration. If you have access to more than one workspace, you can combine configurations from different workspaces. You cannot combine configurations from different organizations. Full Clones and Linked Clones When you combine configurations, you can consolidate the source configuration's virtual machines during the cloning process to create full clones of the virtual machines. Typically, you should not create full clones, unless you plan to dismantle the storage and move the configuration to a different server, or you need to maximize the performance of specific virtual machines (for example, for certain production‐level virtual machines). A full‐clone operation copies all of a virtual machine's delta disks and its base disk and consolidates them into a new base disk. The original base disk remains unchanged. A full‐clone operation takes longer than a linked‐clone operation. You cannot make a full clone of a deployed configuration. A linked‐clone operation creates a delta disk instead of copying an entire virtual hard disk. This operation addresses virtual machine proliferation by using referential provisioning, a process that involves storing new changes but refers back to a chain of delta disks. For each clone, Lab Manager freezes the original delta disk and creates a new one. When you create a clone, Lab Manager assigns the same network parameters to the cloned virtual machines. If you deploy the original and cloned configurations at the same time, duplicate IP address errors occur unless you deploy one of the configurations in fenced mode. To combine workspace configurations 1 Move the pointer over the configuration name and select Clone. 2 Specify the destination workspace, if applicable. 3 Select Existing Configuration and select a destination configuration. 4 (Optional) Type change summary text that will appear on the History tab of the source and destination configurations. 5 Specify the type of clone. If the configuration is deployed, you can only create linked clones. 6 Specify the virtual machines to clone. If you are creating full clones, select a datastore. 7 Click OK. Add a Network to a Workspace Configuration Virtual machines in a configuration can connect to any network in the configuration. If you want to connect a virtual machine NIC to a different network, you must first add the network to the configuration. A configuration can include a network to which no virtual machines connect. To add a network to a configuration 1 Move the pointer over the configuration name and select Open. 2 Click the Networks tab. The page displays the networks currently available to virtual machines in the configuration. 3 Click Add Network. 4 Select a network. The list of networks includes the available physical networks and virtual networks. VMware, Inc. 67