title: What is a difference between vcenter's template and virtual machine?
body: <p>As in the topic.</p>
  
  <p>I wonder since I cannot find this information anywhere and currently I am using a virtual machine (linux) on my vcenter which is cloned and then a special shell script is run on this freshly cloned machine to setup up environment and IP adresses etc.</p>
  
  <p>Maybe I would be able to benefit from templates this way.</p>