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1. From the main menu, go to myCloud and go to the Virtual datacenters section.
   It should open at the Virtual appliances tab

2. Select the virtual datacenter you want to deploy a virtual appliance in

3. Click the + add button at the bottom of the the Virtual Appliances tab
   

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4. Enter the details of the virtual appliance

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5. Click on Open or the virtual appliance Name to enter the virtual appliance editor. A virtual appliance will not do anything unless you add at least one VM template to it

6. Click the Create virtual machine button. You can now select from the VM templates that are ready to be deployed.
   Double-click a template to create a VM with the default Name, or click once and enter your own friendly name for the your VM
   

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To start the virtual appliance, click the Deploy virtual appliance button in the top right-hand corner of the Virtual machines panel.

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This will deploy and start the VMs in the virtual appliance. 
You can also deploy virtual appliances using the controls that appear when a virtual appliance is selected in the virtual datacenter view. 

When the Virtual appliance is deployed, the Deploy button becomes an Undeploy button or a Deploy all VMs button.
To destroy all the VMs and all your data on the hard disks, click the Undeploy button.

To monitor a VM

1. Log in to the platform as an enterprise user

2. Open the configuration of a deployed VM

3. Mark the checkbox to Retrieve metrics

4. Select the metrics you wish to retrieve

5. Save the virtual machine configuration

6. Open the monitoring view; the metrics should be displayed. You can also filter the display.

You can retrieve and display metrics to monitor the performance of your VM.

1. Open a virtual appliance

2. Shut down the VMs you want to copy the disks from to make the instance.
   For each VM, select stop or 'power button'.
   If your VM has the appropriate configuration (VM tools), select the option to shut down the VM.
   Otherwise, you can connect directly to the VM to perform a graceful shutdown, or select the option to perform a hard power off.  

3. From the virtual appliance options menu, select Create instance
   

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4. Select one of the VMs to instance

5. Select the disks
   

   • If you want to create more instances, select Keep window open

6. Click Create Instance. The platform will lock the VM to create the instance
   

   • If you kept the dialog open, click Back to list and create more instances as required, then close the dialog

1. To change VM settings, from the VM options menu, select Edit.
   

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    The VM edit dialog will open.

2. On the General tab, enable remote access, obtain the password and optionally increase CPU and/or RAM.
   Also make a note of the SSH user and password if they are available.

3. On the Network tab, go to Private and select the default_private_network
   

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2. Add an IP address or add the "Auto-generated IP" tag to the VM

3. Remove the original IP address (so as to not have two IP addresses on the same network)

4. On the Storage tab, add a hard disk by clicking the + add button at the bottom of the top of the page
   

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2. Enter appropriate values for a disk in your environment and click Save.