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Introduction to virtual appliances
A virtual appliance is like a folder that contains a group of one or more virtual machines (VMs). These VMs may be related and you can use them together to provide a service. You can manage each VM separately or deploy all the VMs in the virtual appliance together. You must create VMs within virtual appliances.
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The platform will launch the VMs and power them on. The status bar below each VM icon will be coloured green. And the Deploy virtual appliance button changes to become the Undeploy virtual appliance button, which you can click to destroy the VMs.
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To display the metrics of the VMs in the virtual appliance, :
Open the virtual appliance
Select the Virtual machine metrics page
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Go to Virtual appliances → Edit a virtual appliance→ Tags
Add tags as described below
For entities that exist in the platform only, such as virtual appliances, the user can create tags in the platform only.
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To Move, click on the crossed arrows move button of the virtual appliance icon, or the Name (in list mode), and drag it into the new virtual datacenter
To Copy, hold down the
SHIFTkey, then click on the move button or the Name of the virtual appliance and drag it into the new virtual datacenter
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To create VMs with high availability using anti-affinity layers, see Manage VM high availability
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Pages related to virtual appliances
Working with VMs
To administer virtual resources, see the Related pages section of myCloud view