IS anyone using Linked Clones in Vcenter or anywhere else? We are creating them via powerCLI scripts (found on the net), essentially we take a snapshot of a 'master' template VM and then spin off X number of linked clones from that. I was wondering what the most LCs anyone may be running against a single master? Has anyone seen performance issues?
Thanks
Dave
Are you talking about virtual servers, or VMware Workstation? What versions? My initial response is that there is some risk to this, as if the master is unavailable, none of the linked clones will boot.
yes these are not 1 off servers, these are "worker bee" type servers, so there's lots of them. Therefore if lets say 25 of them are tied to a single master and the master is deleted or corrupted or whatever, and those 25 go down, there are still a couple hundred other of this same server doing its job.
This is in vcenter/vsphere not workstation. these are virtual servers created via a snapshot of the master vm via powercli script.