Deploy virtual machines and power actions

This page describes how to launch a VM into the cloud and how to pause, shut down, power off, deallocate, and restart a VM!

Deploy virtual machines

To launch your VMs, click Deploy virtual appliance above the Virtual machines pane on the right-hand side of the screen.

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.

VM power actions

The multicloud platform supports power actions to easily stop, start, pause, and reset VMs.

To stop a VM that is deployed and powered on:

Select the VM icon
Click the Power off button, which has three horizontal lines.
Select from the following options:
1. Shut down: The platform will try to gracefully shut down the VM. This option may require hypervisor and guest VM configuration
2. Power off: The platform will perform a hard power off on the virtualization technology. Warning: Using this option may cause loss of data

Microsoft Azure (ARM)

The VM power menu in Azure has the following options:

Deallocate to stop the VM and remove resources
Power off to shut down the VM

Remember that stopping a VM does not destroy it in the cloud provider and the VM is still consuming resources.

To power on a VM, click the Start button, which is a "play" button with a right facing triangle

Depending on the cloud provider, you may also be able to perform the following actions:

Pause a VM to suspend it using the double vertical bar button, then power on to restart
Reset a VM to restart it using the circular arrow around a play button

The platform displays the appropriate buttons for the provider and the current state of the VM.