Cloning Virtual Machine

[tecnotel1]

Hi,
we currently host our customers 3cxs on AWS, we have like 20 or 30 there but now we upgraded some of our own datacenters so we are planning to move these VMs to our own cloud.

We have made a new virtual machine (debian+3cx v.18) and installed it giving for example a X.X.X.X ip address.
We did not go on with the final installation so this machine is stopped at the "http://x.x.x.x:5015?V=2" point.
We would like to use it as a "Master Virtual Machine" so any time we need a new VM we just clone it, enter via console, change ip address, reboot and finish the installation or upload backup from the aws 3cxs

Can anybody confirm that this is a good solution or maybe we are missing something?
I remember that You cannot change ip address after the installation but this is a little bit different.

Thanks in advance
Regards

 

[Evolute IT]

Does your cloud hosting provider support CloudInit?

Because I don't think you can just clone the machine. There's some machine IDs in there that will get messed up IIRC.

 

[tecnotel1]

Hi @ConceptsWeb,
we use Proxmox and it supports cloud-init but, in this case, I only need 30 plain VMs wich will be different only for the ip address.
Cloud-init helps me install with the whole process, I only need to be sure that these plain machines are really plain and the do not, as You mentioned before, some ID or whatever thats coming from the master image

I see for example here https://www.3cx.com/community/threads/cloud-init-and-customized-configurations.86756/
that "NickD_3CX" wrote something really near my situation