We've got 6 Gold Thin Provisioned Templates and have filled the datastore they are on. Long story how this happened. The process that is used is a user Clones to Workspace using a Linked clone and then deploys the machine from there.
I need to spread these thin provisioned templates out across other datastores so this doesnt happen in the future but my understanding is that if I use the Consolidate action to move one of these templates this will effect all of the linked clones. Is this correct?
If so is there any other way to move a Thin Template to a new datastore and not break the linked clones?
The only other option is making a copy\clone of the template and moving it but the problem so far with that is this converts the template from Thin to Thick as we are using LM 4.0.2. So if I Cloned the template and it converted to Thick is there a way to get it back to Thin again?
Then I could take those new Thin Templates and spread them out and those could be used as the old ones get undeployed.
Thanks for reading this far and any suggestions.