We've looked at what the default set of VMware templates does, but it can be a bit confusing to understand how they interact and what configuration entity creates what. Let's try to summarize their interaction and purpose in a diagram. Here, hosts that receive the listed template are represented with a thick border, while various LLD rules are shown with a thin border:

If a template has host prototypes, hence resulting in more hosts being created, it points to another thick-bordered host box, which in turn is linked to another template.

But remember that, for this tree to start working, we only had to create a single host and link it to a single template, Template VM VMware.