Caching OS Template on Hardware Nodes

The Cache on Nodes screen allows you to cache the given OS template on one or more Hardware Nodes registered in Parallels Infrastructure Manager.

There are two types of caching, which correspond to the two options under the Select Cache Options heading:

• Selecting the Cache OS template for Container creation option tells Infrastructure Manager to create a tarball of the packages comprising the template, which helps greatly speed up the process of creating new Containers on the Hardware Nodes where this OS template is cached.
• The Cache application packages option applies to EZ templates only. Selecting this option makes Parallels Infrastructure Manager download the latest packages comprising the EZ template to the Hardware Node(s) indicated in the Select Hardware Nodes section.

Both types of caching are only available on those Nodes where the given template has already been installed. You can define the list of such Nodes in the Select Hardware Nodes section with the help of the Add and Remove Selected buttons.

Note: For standard OS templates, the options described above are not shown, because caching a standard OS template always amounts to creating a Container tarball, which corresponds to the first option for EZ templates.

Click the Cache button to initiate the caching procedure.

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