9.2 Virtual Machine Management
The Orchestrator 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 Novell ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 Virtual Machine Management Guide.
While Orchestrator 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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Check in VMs that have the proper versions and system configurations.
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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.
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Retire, delete, and destroy VMs: Jobs can decommission and retire deployed images.
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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.