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Chapter 11 Managing Virtual Machines
Adding and Removing Virtual Machines
VirtualmachinescanbeaddedtotheVirtualCenterServerinventorythroughtheir
managedhosts.TheycanberemovedfromVirtualCenterServercontrolandoptionally
fromtheirmanagedhost’sstorage.
Thefollowingsectionsdiscussaddingandremovingvirtualmachines:
 “A d d i n g ExistingVirtualMachinestoVirtualCenter”onpage 175
 “RemovingVirtualMachinesfromVirtualCenter”onpage 175
 “ReturningaVirtualMachineorTemplatetoVirtualCenter”onpage 176
Adding Existing Virtual Machines to VirtualCenter
WhenyouaddamanagedhosttoVMwareInfrastructureClient,itdiscoversallthe
virtualmachinesonthatmanagedhostandaddsthemtotheVirtualCenterinventory.
Ifamanagedhostisdisconnected,thealreadydiscoveredvirtualmachinescontinueto
belistedintheinventory.
Ifamanagedhostisdisconnected
andreconnected,anychangestothevirtual
machinesonthatmanagedhostareidentified,andVMwareInfrastructureClient
updatesthelistofvirtualmachines.Forexample,ifnode3isremovedandnode4is
added,thenewlistofvirtualmachinesaddsnode4andshowsnode3asorphaned.
Removing Virtual Machines from VirtualCenter
RemovingVirtualMachinesfrominventoryunregistersthemfromthehostand
VirtualCenter.Virtualmachinefilesremainatthesamestoragelocationandthevirtual
machinecanbereregisteredusingthedatastorebrowser.
RemovingVirtualMachinesfromdisk,ontheotherhand,purgesthevirtualmachine
anditsfiles.
To remove a virtual machine from VirtualCenter but not the datastore
1FromtheVI
Client,clicktheInventorybuttoninthenavigationbar.
2 Expandtheinventoryasneeded,andclicktheappropriatevirtualmachine.
3Makesurethatthevirtualmachineispoweredoff.
4 Selectthevirtualmachineintheinventorypanel.
5 ChooseInventory>VirtualMachine>Remove,orright‐clickonthevirtual
machineand
selectRemovefromInv entory.