Delete a server

This page describes what happens when you delete a virtual machine from the cloud platform.

For information about deleting a hypervisor host, see Compute in datacenters | Delete a server

When you delete a VM, this will delete it from the backend and from the platform.

To delete a VM, move the mouse over the VM and from the VM options menu, select Delete.

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.

To delete the VM from the backend but keep the VM configuration, you can undeploy the VM. 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.

The state of the undeployed VM will be not allocated.

By default, a VM that is not allocated is not billed. But if you used certain resources in the VM, such as a public IP or external volume, these may still be a part of the your cloud resources, and they may be billed.

The user can go to the VM icon of a not allocated VM and edit the VM configuration. And the user can deploy the VM again. If they deploy the VM again, then the VM will start with a new copy of the disk from the catalogue.

To save a new copy of the VM disk to the catalogue, create an Abiquo instance template from the VM.

If your VMs were captured from a hypervisor and you want to undeploy and deploy them again, then you should make an instance template before you undeploy. You can then recreate the VM from the instance template.