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View Relationship Between Golden Template, Master vDisk, and Clones

To identify the vDisk from which a particular vDisk has been derived, Client Automation collects the inventory under Template settings and template history.

Using this inventory information, you can ascertain the immediate parent of a particular vDisk and history of changes that are made to a vDisk. The relationship is identified as follows:

• A master vDisk points to the golden template as a parent.
• If you created a clone from a master vDisk after booting the master vDisk in private mode, the clone points to the master vDisk as its parent.
• If you created a clone from a master vDisk before booting the master vDisk in private mode, the clone is the same as the master vDisk and it points to the golden template as parent. If further clones are created from such vDisk clones of the master vDisk, all the clones point to the golden template as its parent.

Follow these steps: (in DSM Explorer)

1. Navigate to the Computers and Users, All Computers, vDisk_name, Inventory, Operating System folder.
2. Select the Template Settings subfolder to view the values for the following attributes:

   IsGoldenTemplate

   Indicates whether the agent in question is a golden template (True) or a virtual desktop (False). The value is true for the master vDisk and its clones.

   TemplateHostUUID

   Specifies the host UUID of the golden template. For a master vDisk, the host UUID of the golden template is displayed. For cloned vDisks, the host UUID differs depending on the following factors:

   • If the clone was created after the master vDisk was booted in private mode, the host UUID of the master vDisk is displayed.
   • If the clone was created before the master vDisk was booted in private mode, the host UUID of the golden template system is displayed.

   TemplateName

   Specifies the name of the golden template.

   TemplateTag

   Indicates the date and timestamp of the template for the golden template or vDisk only if the template has been tagged.

3. Select the Template History subfolder to view the template history for the virtual desktop or the templates, providing that the templates have been tagged.

Follow these steps: (in Web Console)

1. Navigate to the Computers, Inventory, Discovered Inventory page.
2. Click the Operating System tab to view the value of the Virtual Machine attribute.
3. Click Template Settings under the More Details tab to view the values of the IsGoldenTemplate, TemplateName, TemplateTag, and TemplateHostUUID attributes.
4. Click Template History under the More Details tab to view the template history for the clone.

   You have reviewed the relationship information and template history.

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