VMware, Inc.
METHOD TO ORGANIZE VIRTUAL MACHINE TEMPLATES FOR FAST APPLICATION PROVISIONING

Abstract:

Virtualized computing instances, such as virtual machines, in a virtualized computing environment are provisioned using a tree-based template structure. The tree-based template structure includes a base node and multiple nodes linked to the base node. Each of the multiple nodes includes at least one component that represents a delta relative to the base node. By matching the requirements and role of a virtualized computing instance to be provisioned with the content(s) of a particular node, the particular node can be selected for cloning/creating the virtualized computing instance.