A few weeks ago, I addressed the concept of using the back-end storage to clone RHEL boot LUNs as opposed to repeated Kickstarts. The reasoning is simple enough – cloning on the backend is significantly faster that creating from scratch. Work smarter, not harder.. Right?
So what happens when we apply the same logic to individual virtual machines? In a word?
“Magic”. Continue reading “Offload VM Cloning from KVM to the Back-end Storage”