9.2 Virtual Machine Management
The PlateSpin Orchestrate provisioning manager provides the ability to manage the use of virtual machines, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 9-1 VM Management
For more information about managing virtual machines, see the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference.
While PlateSpin Orchestrate enables you manage many aspects of your virtual environment, as a developer, you can create custom jobs that do the following tasks:
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Create and clone VMs: These jobs Creates virtual machine images to be stored or deployed. They also create templates for building images to be stored or deployed (see VM Instance: and VM Template:).
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Discover resources that can be used as VM hosts.
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Provision, migrate, and move VMs: Virtual machine images can be moved from one physical machine to another.
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Provide checkpoints, restoration, and re-synchronization of VMs: Snapshots of the virtual machine image can be taken and used to restore the environment if needed. For more information, refer to the documentation for your hypervisor or contact technical support organization for that hypervisor.
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Monitor VM operations: Jobs can start, shut down, suspend and restart VMs.
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Manage on, off, suspend, and restart operations.