Executing management tasks on Microsoft virtual machines

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

To execute management tasks on a VMM server

1. In the Servers folder, navigate to a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) server and expand the Live node.

2. Expand the Microsoft VMM server object type and then expand the Virtual Machines node. The Virtual Machines node shows all virtual machines configured within the VMM server. The icons indicate the status of the virtual machine.

   Task	Description
   	Running
   	Stopped
   	Paused

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 Monitoring-compliance-in-the-virtual-environment.
   Start	Starts the virtual machine.
   Guest Shutdown	Run any power-down scripts and then stop a virtual machine.
   Stop	Perform an immediate stop of the virtual machine, without running any power-down scripts.
   Suspend	Pause the virtual machine.
   Resume	Starts a paused virtual machine.
   SaveState	Save the virtual machine's state to hard disk.
   DiscardSaveState	Discard the saved state from hard disk.
   Snapshot virtual machine	Create a snapshot for the virtual machine.
   Rename	Renames the virtual machine.
   Delete	Deletes the virtual machine.
   Properties	Displays a read-only view of the virtual machine properties, such as path and virtual machine status.