An administrator's environment has a complex Sysprep script that must be applied to all new VMs. Which feature could be used to accomplish this?

Prism’s Guest Customization function lets you attach a Sysprep answer file (unattend.xml) or cloud-init data when a VM is created or cloned. At first boot AHV injects the file and runs Windows Sysprep inside the guest, allowing any length or complexity of configuration to be executed automatically on every new VM. No other Prism feature directly delivers and runs Sysprep scripts.

A. Scheduler Policies – automate snapshot, replication, or power-on actions; do not inject or execute Sysprep inside the guest.
B. Clone from Image Service – copies disks/VMs from an uploaded image but performs no guest-OS customization beyond what is already baked into the image.
D. Quota Management – enforces capacity or VM-count limits for users/projects; unrelated to in-guest configuration.

1. Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine Management Guide v6.5, “Guest Customization for Windows VMs – Providing a Sysprep Answer File,” pp. 744-748 (Nutanix Doc ID: ahv-vmmg-65).

2. Nutanix Prism Central Administration Guide v2023.1, Section “Creating a VM – Guest Customization Tab,” para 3-5.

3. Nutanix Support KB-3415 “Guest Customization Overview: Using unattend.xml with Sysprep on AHV VMs,” Steps 1-4.