Managing Templates

A template in Parallels Server Bare Metal is a pre-configured virtual machine that can be easily and quickly deployed into a fully functional virtual machine. Like any normal virtual machine, 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 and a template is that the latter cannot be started.

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

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

These operations are described in the following subsections in detail.