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Reservation Templates

The Reservation templates let you define nearly every aspect required when building a virtual machine, including machine settings and software installed.

Follow these steps:

1. Create the reservation template: defining basic information, assigning a system image, assigning a custom specification, allocation policy, any pre or post type actions, and access policy.
2. Edit the reservation template: defining CPU, memory, and additional hard disk space.

   

You can use system images multiple times in different reservation templates. Therefore, after you have a basic system image, you can assign it to multiple reservation templates. Using the previous example, every system created had 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and a 20 GB of hard drive.

The following table shows an example of how you can expand the reservation template offerings using the basic system images that you created earlier:

Additionally, you can use the reservation template to define multiple virtual machines, so that by selecting a predefined reservation template, you can build two or three virtual machines. You can assign reservation templates to organizational units to limit their use.