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nameRestrict virtual appliances and VMs

To restrict a VM by moving it to a restricted VApp:

  1. Click the VM move button on the VM control panel

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  2. To move a VM to a restricted virtual appliance, the user can do one of the following depending on their privileges:

    • Select the option to Move the VM to a restricted VApp

    • Select a restricted VApp from the list

      Select a restricted VApp
    • Create a new restricted VApp.

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Screenshot: You can check the relocation by clicking the Relocate button again, which will show the original host as a new candidate

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What happens when the user clicks deploy?

The VM scheduler deploys the VM.

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  • A yellow warning or red error notification message

  • An error state on the VM icon

  • A VM warning symbol in the lower part of the VM icon. 

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The user and the administrator may be notified of the error. 

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  1. Before you begin, create a VM with the Abiquo UI and power it off. Open the browser console. This example uses Chrome, so we clicked F12.

  2. Select the Network view

  3. Click the red arrow record button and the clear button next to it

  4. In the platform on the VM control panel, click the Start button

     Steps 1-4 for retrieving a VM via API
  5. Scroll up to the first request, which should be a PUT request to the virtual machine state URL. Click on the request

    1. If you can't see the Method column, right click on a column heading and select Method from the list

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  6. Select the link to the VM up to the end of the VM ID number (before "/state")

  7. Use a cURL request similar to the one the example below or a REST API tool such as Postman to perform a GET request to this link. For this basic testing, you can use the -k option to avoid security warnings.

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