Managing Templates

A template in Parallels Cloud Server is a pre-configured virtual machine or Container that can be easily and quickly deployed into a fully functional virtual machine or Container. Like any normal virtual machine or Container, a template contains hardware (virtual disks, peripheral devices) and the operating system. It can also have additional software installed. In fact, the only main difference between a virtual machine or Container and a template is that the latter cannot be started.

In Parallels Cloud Server, you can perform the following operations on templates:

• create a new template
• list the existing templates
• create a virtual machine or Container from a template

These operations are described in the following subsections in detail.