Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 Installation Guide

ASM supports cloning virtual machines (VM) or virtual machine templates in VMware, and cloning virtual machine templates in Hyper-V and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For ASM virtual machine or virtual machine template cloning, the virtual machine or virtual machine templates must be customized to make sure virtual machine or virtual machine templates have a unique identifier and can communicate back to the ASM appliance upon completion of the cloning process. This requires several customizing steps that depends on virtual machine which is needed to be cloned.