When you clone a cloud VM, a copy of the instance for the cloud VM is created and associated with the new cloud VM.

Perform the following steps to clone a cloud VM:

1. Click a cloud profile in the OCI group.

   The cloud VMs for the selected cloud profile are displayed.

2. Right-click the cloud VM you want to clone and select Clone.

   The Clone Name dialog is displayed.

   Enter a name for the clone.

   The name you enter is also used as the display name for the related instance. The default name for the clone consists of the _clone suffix appended to the original name. For example, ol9-dev_clone.

3. Click OK to create the clone and the related instance. The new instance is started automatically.

   The new cloud VM is shown in the OCI group in .