We are just starting to install WMWare Lab Manager and there is one thing I cannot figure out and that is databases and deltas.
Scenario. We create a base image of Database-1 which is then cloned for people to do testing on. We will call that database Clone-1. Now a developer comes along and decides he would like his own copy of Clone-1 so that his work does not interfere with the rest of the team. The developer creates a clone from Clone-1 which we will call Personnel-Clone-1. Now when the rest of team updates, inserts, and deletes records from Clone-1 does the developer see those changes in Personnel-Clone-1? If so it would appear that changes to Clone-1 could make the Personnel-Clone-1 unstable. On the other side of the coin if Personnel-Clone-1 is a complete copy of Clone-1 that would seem like it would eat up a lot of disk space.