Virtual Machines

[MartinIAm]

How do companies have it so when you rent a vm from the company, it sets it up automatically? Is this some kind of code that they have to setup or is there a program for this?

[TheBean]

because they probably have the same hardware in bulk, they have a vm that they would have set up at the beginning which they just copy for everyone. so they are essentially copying the same VM disk across all of them as the same hardware will require the same setup. 

 

if they have another set of different hardware, then they just make another set of duplicated VMs

[MartinIAm]

10 minutes ago, Saksham said:

because they probably have the same hardware in bulk, they have a vm that they would have set up at the beginning which they just copy for everyone. so they are essentially copying the same VM disk across all of them as the same hardware will require the same setup. 

 

if they have another set of different hardware, then they just make another set of duplicated VMs

So then when a customer buys a vm they just give them an available vm?

[FitnessOgre]

There is software that can be used to rapidly provision VMs based on what the customer wants.

I use templates in VMware to deploy servers when needed. I can even script it to create multiple server with all the settings and everything all done via PowerCLI. I don't generally need to do that as I seldom have to spin up more than one or two VMs at any given time for a project. 

 

VM's don't take long to create. 

[Pixel5]

they basically have software for this that automatically sets up exactly what you have ordered.

Often this can even be coupled directly to their ordering system so that nobody even needs to touch it at all.