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Managing Virtual CDs

Create and manage virtual CDs (VCDs) to make software installation media available to the virtual machines on your everRun system in ISO format.

A VCD is a read-only ISO image file that resides on a storage device of the everRun system. Use the Virtual CD Creation Wizard (in everRun Availability Console) to upload an existing ISO file, as described in Creating a Virtual CD.

After you create a VCD, you can boot from it to install a Windows or Linux guest operating system, or start a VM from a bootable recovery VCD.

Note: To ensure continuous uptime, the everRun software prevents you from inserting a VCD after guest installation because it would prevent the system from migrating VMs in the event of a failure. However, you can still boot a virtual machine from a VCD for troubleshooting purposes.

You manage VCDs as described in:

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