Working with templates

This topic lists the tasks that you can perform with virtual server templates and with operating system templates.

There are two types of templates within z/VM Center:
Virtual server templates
are templates on which z/VM virtual servers are based. Most of the parameters of a z/VM virtual server are determined by the parameters of the virtual server template on which it is based. After the z/VM virtual server has been created these parameters are fixed.
Operating system templates
are templates on which operating system instances are based. An operating system template is created from an especially prepared instance of an operating system, the master system. To z/VM, an operating system template is a guest virtual machine. Once an operating system template is in place, it can be used to create operating system instances.
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