If you have an existing virtual machine that is not part of the Cloud Manager system, you can import it as new business service or you can import it into a deployed business service. Because the virtual machine is already provisioned, the request and provisioning processes are skipped and the virtual machine is imported directly as a deployed workload.
In order to import a virtual machine, it must reside on a host associated with a resource group. The virtual machine can be running, shut down, or suspended.