Performing Power Operations on Virtual Machines

Owned by Tran Dai Quan
May 18, 2023
4 min read

 

Overview

You can perform power operations on virtual machines, such as power on or off a virtual machine, suspending or resetting a virtual machine or shutting down the guest Operating System of a virtual machine.

Procedure

II. Power On a Virtual Machine

  1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore and from the left panel, select Virtual Machines.

2. Click card view

3. In the card of the virtual machine that you want to start, click ACTIONS > Power > Power On.

A powered-on virtual machine displays a Powered-on status in green.

II. Shut Down Guest OS, Power Off, Reset a Virtual Machine

The Shut Down Guest OS for VM action shuts down the guest operating system and powers off the virtual machine. VMware Tools must be installed and running on VM.

Powering off a virtual machine is the equivalent of powering off a physical machine.

Resetting a virtual machine clears state (memory, cache, and so on), but the virtual machine continues to run. Resetting a virtual machine is the equivalent of pushing the reset button of a physical machine. It initiates a hard reset of the operating system without changing the power state of the virtual machine.

  1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore and from the left panel, select Virtual Machines.

2. Click card view

3. In the card of the virtual machine that you want to power off, click ACTIONS > Power > Power Off\Shut Down Guest OS\Reset

III. Suspend a Virtual Machine

Suspending a virtual machine preserves its current state by writing the memory (RAM) to disk.

The suspend and resume feature is useful when you want to save the current state (RAM) of your virtual machine and continue work later from the same state.

  1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore and from the left panel, select Virtual Machines.

2. Click card view

3. In the card of the virtual machine that you want to start, click ACTIONS > Power > Suspend.

 

The virtual machine is suspended, but its state is preserved.

***NOTE: from VM Suspended state, just Power On if need VM run with current memory.

IV. Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine

If a virtual machine is in a suspended state and you no longer need to resume the use of the machine, you can discard the suspended state. Discarding the suspended state removes the saved memory and returns the machine to a powered-off state.

  1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore and from the left panel, select Virtual Machines.

2. Click card view

3. In the card of the virtual machine that you want to start, click ACTIONS > Power > Discard suspended state.

The state is discarded, and the virtual machine is powered off.

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