Hi all, I hope you are well.
I am just looking for some advise/best practice on cloning Hyper-V VMs.
The scenario we have is one production VM that we wish to make a clone of, it's an RDS server and we need another.
We are debating two ways of doing the clone and would like to know the advantages/disadvantages and the recommended route.
We intend to use sysprep, but have considered two ways:
- Sysprep the production server, shut it down, clone it, then boot both copies up and set them back up with different hostnames/IPs etc.
- Clone the production server, boot it off of the network, sysprep it, and then join it to the production environment (obviously with a different IP and different hostname for the new one).
I've been tempted with the second option as I don't believe it will mean any changes are made to the production server, so less chance for it to cause issues, however I'm not certain any would like some advise.
Thank you.
