Thanks John
But please clear up the confusion here
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If you run this process and delete the original from Catalog, nothing will be damaged. The pre-existing VMs based on the "previous" linked clone chain will still exist. vCenter manages these linked clone chains now, as Shadow VMs"
i follow, you say delete the VM / vApp and create a new one. Which implies you start again and will have essentially two copies of the template while linked clones exist off the original.
However the sentence "The difference is with vCloud, that you have to make 1 more additional link in the chain to put it back into the Catalog."
i don't follow, how does a fresh vm related to an additional link ?
Do you mean something like :
- create a linked clone from template
- update it
- rename original,
- place new back in catalog
- delete original ?
Thanks