Guys, running ESXi 6.5 and 6.0. I need to spin up around 20 Windows 2012 R2 machines to simulate a prod environment. Since I only need these for 4 weeks 20 full fat VMs seems like a waste of space on my DataStore. Also, I have some fats tiers with limited space so looking at creating a single VM and creating linked clones off it with the API (python or powercli).Just wondering though, is it possible to split a clone off from it's parent i.e. merge a clone with the base so its now a fully fledged independent VM again ?
