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Preliminary note: please talk to the account manager if you’re looking to have 2x the appliances that are actively ‘running’  (license concerns) and if there are other items, such as security testing that are occurring, looking at having support on these devices, etc. We can work with you to understand specific goals and ensure the best technical solution exists. 

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What is the goal of the clone? You mentioned it would be ‘working’ but in which way?

If it’s a 1:1 clone, the first issues you’ll probably hit: 

1. DNS configurations to reach the desired running system
   1. We warn against changing the hostname after configuring the system so they would have the same hostname; they could have separate IPs but the hostname would be the same
2. Rotating passwords, etc. - if they’re trying to reach out and independently manage the same systems, you could lock yourself out when it rotates the functional account on one system (assuming using a separate SQL DB)