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Virtual Machine Actions

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

Action	Description
Create	Launches the Create VM Wizard. See Creating a New Virtual Machine.
Copy	Copies an existing VM on your system to create a new VM or to create a duplicate VM for troubleshooting. See Copying a 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
Export	Saves the image of a VM to a set of OVF and VHD files. You can import these files on another system or import them back to the same everRun system to restore or duplicate the original VM. See Exporting a Virtual Machine from an everRun System.
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 use to create a new VM or 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.

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