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Virtual Machine Actions

When you select a virtual machine (VM), the following action buttons can appear, depending on the VM's state and activity.

Action Description

Create

Launches the Create VM Wizard. See Creating a New Virtual Machine.

Import/Restore

Imports a VM from a set of OVF and VHD files. See Creating and Migrating Virtual Machines.

The import wizard allows you to import a VM to create a new instance of the VM or restore a VM to create an identical VM with the same hardware IDs provided in the OVF and VHD files.

Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing physical or virtual machine data. The OVF format contains meta-data information about the VM. A Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file that contains the virtual disk information.

The following actions are available for use if the VM is running.

Console

Opens a console for the selected VM. See Opening a Virtual Machine Console Session.

Snapshot

Creates a VM snapshot that you can export to OVF and VHD files. See Managing Snapshots.

Shutdown

Shuts down the selected VM. See Shutting Down a Virtual Machine.

Power Off

Immediately stops processing in the selected VM and destroys its memory state. Use this only as a last resort, when the VM cannot be successfully shutdown. See Powering Off a Virtual Machine.

The following actions are available if the VM is shut down or stopped.

Config

Launches the Reprovision Virtual Machine wizard. The VM must be shut down prior to launching this wizard. See Reprovisioning Virtual Machine Resources

Restore

Recovers an existing VM on your everRun system by overwriting the VM from a previous backup copy of OVF and VHD files. See Replacing a Virtual Machine from an OVF File.

Snapshot

Creates a VM snapshot that you can export to OVF and VHD files. See Managing Snapshots.

Start

Boots the selected VM. See Starting a Virtual Machine.

Boot From CD

Boots a VM from the selected virtual CD. See Booting from a Virtual CD.

The following action is available if the everRun software has removed the VM from service and powered it off because an excessive failure rate.

Reset Device

Resets the mean time between failures (MTBF) counter for a VM so it can be brought back into service. See Resetting MTBF for a Failed Virtual Machine.

When a VM crashes, the everRun software automatically restarts it, unless it has fallen below its MTBF threshold. If the VM is below the MTBF threshold, the everRun software leaves it in the crashed state. If necessary, you can click Reset Device to restart the VM and reset the MTBF counter.

Related Topics

Managing the Operation of a Virtual Machine

The Virtual Machines Page

Using the everRun Availability Console

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