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I don't think so mate no. Once you've gone through that process the linked template is already copied into each storage location.

Super, thanks

Only thing I can think of is possibly rollback issue depending on hypervisor…

Hmmm yes, that would obviously not be possible without the previous image. Maybe will add a note to do it only after new image has been up for a few days

That should still be okay too as the snapshot that's copied to each storage location will still be there too.

Ah right

But I hear what Jarian is saying and I've never "pressed the buttons in this order" so no guarantee. In theory though, promoting a new image copies a new base clone to each storage location and retains the previous one for rollback. It doesn't rely on the original VM.

it all sounds good enough for my current predicament, so happy days

Just say "Leee said" if it all goes wrong.

I don’t think that’s equal on all hypervisors and how they handle image management.

Yeah, if you're on ESX the snapshot is a flattened copy of the golden image. You'll be fine in a running state but as Jarian said, rollback can become problematic.

Part of the image update process here involves manually cloning the golden image to a second datacenter and I don't want them to get in the habit of leaving stacks of copies of it lying about. But giving it a week or so to bed in should be reasonable enough. Very small customer I am trying to hand over to with zero Citrix skills, so you can imagine the shenanigans

If this is Azure, James has a kickass automation script to handle replication between datacenters and cleanup

Sadly not