Hello,
I have a few questions on what the best practices are for cloning a VM. I have read in a couple of places now that syspreping the machine isn't as much of a big deal as it used to be back in the day due to hardware dependencies and new light being shed on the machine SID (apparently it doesn't matter if it is changed or not anymore). Here are a few questions I have when it comes to creating a duplicate machine inside the realms of VMware.
1. Can you just clone a machine and roll with it without doing sysprep and then just rename the machine upon power-on?
2. Is sysprep worth running with the VMware Customization wizard? It looks like that simply runs sysprep for you and saves you the pain of creating custom unattend files.
3. If you use the VMware Customization wizard, is there anyway to execute a custom script during the customization process? I would like to execute a script to ensure my drives do not change letters upon deployment.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
-ToTheCloud