| Excerpt | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
How to edit VM cost codes, lock and protect VMs, relocate a VM, troubleshoot VM launch, manage VMs with workflow feature, and perform power operations with the API on the hybrid cloud platform. |
...
| Insert excerpt | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
...
What happens when the user clicks deploy?
The VM scheduler deploys the VM.
...
If your user role is an administrator role with the privilege to "Manage Users", then you can also delete warnings for the users of the enterprises that you manage.
...
States of
...
VMs
...
VMs and virtual appliances can have different states in the Abiquo platform and there are some important differences between them. To change the state of VMs, you will require the Perform virtual machine actions privilege.
| Panel |
|---|
Privileges: Perform virtual machine actions |
| Tip |
|---|
VM and virtual appliance states in the API In the API the valid VM states are: NOT_ALLOCATED, ALLOCATED, CONFIGURED, ON, PAUSED, OFF, LOCKED and UNKNOWN. See VirtualMachineResource An additional state for protecting VMs by locking them against user actions is the MAINTENANCE state. See also VM power actions using the API |
Virtual machine states table
...
Virtual appliance states table
...
and virtual appliances
| Include Page | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
...
Manage workflow tasks
| Excerpt | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
When workflow is enabled, the user's requests to deploy, reconfigure and undeploy VMs will be held with the status waiting to be reviewed. This can include actions on scaling groups, unless the administrator selects the option to disable workflow in the scaling group. To view the list of workflow tasks
To filter workflow tasks, enter text in the filter box at the top of the tasks list.  To continue a queued workflow task, click the Accept link beside the task. To cancel a queued workflow task, click the Reject link beside the task |
...