On 2009-05-04, Thomas Glanzmann <tho...@glanzmann.de> wrote:
>
>> As far as I understand, VMware already ships this "gold image" feature
>> (as they call it) for Windows environments and claims it to be very
>> efficient.
>
> they call it ,,thin or shallow clones''
"thin or shallow clones" sounds more like sparse images. I believe "linked
clones"
is the word for running multiple virtual machines off a single gold image. Ref,
the "VMware View Composer" section of:
http://www.vmware.com/products/view/whatsincluded.html
> Looking at the website content, it also revealed that VMware will have a
> similiar feature for their workhorse ,,esx server'' in the upcoming
> release, however my point still stands. Ship out a service pack for
> windows and you 1.5 Gbyte of modified data that is not deduped.
"All desktops that are linked to a master image can be patched or updated
simply by updating the master image, without affecting usersâ settings,
data or applications."
-jf
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
