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This page describes what happens when you delete a virtual machine (VM or server) from the cloud platform. For information about deleting a physical machine or hypervisor host, see https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370957/Compute+in+datacenters#Delete-a-server |
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If the virtual appliance or VM is deployed, you do not need to undeploy it. You can directly delete a VM that is deployed, even if it is powered on.
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To delete the VM from the backend but keep the VM configuration, you can undeploy the VM, which will destroy the VM in the hypervisor. To undeploy a VM, on the VM control panel, click Undeploy VM. You can also undeploy all of the VMs in a virtual appliance at the same time.
When you undeploy a VM, the platform destroys the VM in the backend but it does not delete the placeholder VM.
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