Managing virtual machine power state
Prerequisites
- Virtual machines are created, as described in Creating virtual machines.
To manage the power state of a virtual machine
Click the virtual machine or the ellipsis button next to it to see the full list of actions available for thecurrent state.
- To power up a VM, click Run.
- To gracefully shut down a running VM, click Shut down. The default shutdown timeout, after which a virtual machine will be powered off, is 10 minutes. You can configure this timeout per VM by using the
vinfra service compute server stop --wait-timecommand (refer to "vinfra service compute server stop" in the Administrator Command Line Guide). - To forcibly cut off power from a VM, click Power off.
- To softly reboot a running VM, click Reboot.
- To reboot a VM without the guest OS graceful shutdown, click Hard reboot.
- To save the current VM state to a file, click Suspend. This may prove useful, for example, if you need to restart the host but do not want to quit the applications currently running in the VM or restart its guest OS.
- To restore a VM from the suspended state, click Resume.
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