When you delete a physical machine, the platform will put deployed VMs of all VMs types in the “Not allocated” state, without changing the state of the VMs on the hypervisor. (Note that you cannot deploy the captured VMs again unless you recreate them from an instance template).
If you later add the physical machine again or upgrade to using clusters as physical machines, the platform will automatically update all VMs from the hypervisor, returning captured VMs running on the hypervisor to a deployed state. In the API these resynchronized VMs will have the same ID and URL as before.
Note: VMs deployed from a template or instance can be recreated by deploying from that template or instance. However, as captured VMs don’t have a template, it is important to create an instance if you wish to recreate them on a new hypervisor. Remember that Abiquo’s V2V and Export features may help you to deploy on a different hypervisor type, or export to public cloud.
Screenshot: a vCenter with captured VMs.
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