While ZENworks Orchestrator enables you you manage many aspects of your virtual environment, your job developer can create custom jobs that do the following VM Management tasks:
Create and clone VMs
These jobs create virtual machine images to be stored or deployed. They also create templates for building images to be stored or deployed.
Discover resources that can be used as VM hosts
Provision, migrate, and move VMs
Virtual machine images can be moved from one physical machine to another.
Check in VMs that have the proper versions and system configurations
Provide checkpoints, restoration, and resynchronization of VMs
Snapshots of the virtual machine image can be taken and used to restore the environment if needed.
Retire, delete, and destroy VMs
Jobs can decommission and retire deployed images.
Monitor VM operations
Jobs can start, shut down, suspend and restart VMs.
Manage on, off, suspend, and restart operations
For more information on creating VM Management jobs, see Virtual Machine Job Development
in the Novell ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 Developer Guide and Reference.