You are an engineer at a large company running virtual machines on premise. A cluster of identical VMs is running behind a shared load balancer. Another team has requested that a new VM be created for the cluster and that it should be identical to the existing VMs. What function or tool could you use in this situation?
In the context of Virtual Machines the term "cloning" means to copy an entire virtual machine to create a duplicate. This is the VM equivalent of copy+paste and is helpful for scaling or creating new servers using an existing "template" server. Note: Some changes can be expected, such as unique attributes like IP addresses and hostnames but everything else will be identical.
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