[CMP] Virtual Machine Management

Overview

The Cloud Management Platform (CPM) lets you manage your Virtual Machine (VM) lifecycle. The VM management User Interface allows owners to perform various operations as mentioned below.

• Terminal: opens the Linux Terminal to a VM, for issuing a command
• Add to a Cluster (private cloud only): We can add the created VM to an existing cluster if needed.
• Start: re-start a VM
• Stop: stop a running VM 
• Destroy: delete a VM. You'll not be able to delete a VM if your administrator has enabled the Termination Protection feature. A deletion request has to be approved by a Tenant Administrator. 
• Install VM Agent (private cloud only): lets newly registered hosts to establish communication with CMP and install the agent.
• Resize: lets you resize a VM. Clicking Resize opens up a Warning message that your CPU and memory may either increase or decrease. You can only increase the Disk size using Resize. 
• Change Owner:  is a ROLE_VM_CHANGEUSER role-based feature and lets Tenant Administrators change the VM Owners. 
• Test Connection: Test the connection between your VM and the CMP portal. You can only test a connection if you have a CMP VM agent installed on your VM.

Perform a VM Operation

To perform an operation on a VM:

1. Login to your CMP account.
2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > VMs > Click : next to a VM record, to open the operations drop-down list.
   
   

3. We've listed the VM operations you can performed based on VM states in the table below.  
   
   

   VM states	Lifecycle operations
   Stopped	Start Destroy Resize
   Connected	Stop Destroy Test Connection Change Owner
   Started	Stop Destroy Test Connection
   Resized	Start Stop Destroy Test Connection

   Info

   To learn about:

   • CMP VM agent, refer to the article on CMP VM Agent.
   • Termination Protection, refer to the article on /wiki/spaces/SD/pages/10030140.