Instant clone

[Anant99-sys]

Description

Implementation for instant clone functionality

• The Instant Clone technology is used to create powered-on virtual machines from the running state of another powered-on virtual machine.
• The result of an Instant Clone operation is a new virtual machine that is identical to the source virtual machine.
• With Instant Clone you can create new virtual machines from a controlled point in time.
  Instant cloning is very convenient for large-scale application deployments because it ensures memory efficiency and allows for creating numerous virtual machines on a single host.
• This functionality can be used for Creating a powered-on Instant Clone of a virtual machine.

Acceptance tests

• Have you added an acceptance test for the functionality being added?
• Have you run the acceptance tests on this branch?

Output from acceptance testing:

$ make testacc TESTARGS="-run=TestAccResourceVSphereVirtualMachine_Instantclone"

==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
TF_ACC=1 go test $(go list ./... |grep -v 'vendor') -v -run=TestAccResourceVSphereVirtualMachine_Instantclone -timeout 240m
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere	[no test files]
=== RUN   TestAccResourceVSphereVirtualMachine_Instantclone
--- PASS: TestAccResourceVSphereVirtualMachine_Instantclone (188.07s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere	191.274s
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/administrationroles	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/clustercomputeresource	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/computeresource	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/contentlibrary	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/customattribute	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/datacenter	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/datastore	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/dvportgroup	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/envbrowse	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/folder	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/hostsystem	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/network	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/nsx	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/ovfdeploy	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/provider	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/resourcepool	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/spbm	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/storagepod	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/structure	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/testhelper	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/utils	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/vappcontainer	[no test files]
testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/viapi	(cached) [no tests to run]
testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/virtualdisk	(cached) [no tests to run]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/virtualmachine	[no test files]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/helper/vsansystem	[no test files]
testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/virtualdevice	(cached) [no tests to run]
?   	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/internal/vmworkflow	[no test files]

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Release Note

Release note for CHANGELOG:

Capability to Add Instant Clone for a Parent VM.

References

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