Executing management tasks on VMware Virtual Machines

You can perform a variety of management tasks on the VMware virtual machine, such as starting and stopping the virtual machine.

1. In the Servers folder, navigate to a VMware vCenter server and expand the Live node.

2. Expand the VMware vCenter Server server object type and then expand the Virtual Machines node. The Virtual Machines node shows all virtual machines configured within the VMware vCenter server. The icon for the virtual machine indicates the current status.

   Task	Description
   	Running
   	Stopped
   	Disabled
   	Orphaned A virtual machine is considered orphaned (or unregistered) if it exists in the vCenter database but is no longer present on the ESX Server host. A virtual machine could also be orphaned if it exists on a different ESX host than the one expected by the vCenter.

3. Right-click a virtual machine. From the pop-up menu, select any of the management tasks described in the following table.

   Task	Description
   Snapshot or Audit	See Running Snapshot, Audit, and Compliance Jobs on virtual infrastructure.
   Start	Start a virtual machine and run any scripts that are configured to run when the machine starts.
   Stop	Run any power-down scripts and then stop a virtual machine.
   Suspend	Pause a virtual machine that is running.
   Reset	Stop and restart a virtual machine. This procedure runs any power-down scripts before the virtual machine stops, and it runs any power-on scripts after the virtual machine restarts.
   Snapshotvm	See Saving a virtual server's state.
   Delete	Delete a virtual machine.
   Properties	Displays a read-only view of the virtual machine properties, such as path, power status, connection state, and so on.