Specifications

Basic System Administration
298 VMware, Inc.
 “ManagingScheduledTasks”onpage 301
 “ReschedulingaScheduledTask”onpage 304
 “RemovingaScheduledTask”onpage 305
 “CancelingaTask”onpage 305
Understanding Tasks
ThescheduledtasksoptionallowsyoutoconfigureselectedVirtualCenteractivitiesto
occuratdesignatedtimes.Thetimingoptionsincludeimmediately,later,orona
recurringbasis.Scheduledtasksareperformedinadditiontomanuallydriven
activities.
CreateascheduledtaskthroughtheNewTaskwizard,whichdisplaystheavailable
task
options.Afteryouselectanoption,thewizarddisplaysthepagesthatarerelevant
tothetypeoftaskyouarescheduling.TheNewTaskwizardendswhenyousetthe
timingofthetask.Afteryoucreateatask,youcanreschedulethetasktochangeits
timingand
frequency.
Ifthedirectionsofmanuallydrivenandscheduledactivitiesconflict,VirtualCenter
performswhicheveractivityisduefirst.Ifavirtualmachineisinanincorrectstateto
performanyactivity,manualorscheduled,VirtualCentersendsamessagetothelog
anddoesnotperformthetask.
Whenyoucreatea
scheduledtask,VirtualCenterverifiesthatyouhavethecorrect
permissionstoperformtheactionsontherelevantdatacenters,hosts,andvirtual
machines.Afterthetaskiscreated,thetaskisperformedevenifyounolongerhave
permissiontoperformthetask.
WhenanobjectisremovedfromVirtualCenter,allassociated
tasksarealsoremoved.
Eventsareloggedtotheeventlogatstartandcompletionofthetasks.Anyerrorsthat
occurduringthetaskarealsorecordedintheeventlog.
Viewing and Performing Tasks
Youhavetheoptiontoviewthelistoftasksassociatedwithparticularinventoryobjects
orthecompletelistoftasksassignedtotheentireVirtualCenterinventory.Tasks
includeactivitiessuchaspoweringonoroffavirtualmachine,cloningavirtual
machine,oraddingavirtualmachinetoaresource
pool.
CAUTIONDonotschedulemultipletaskstobeperformedatthesametimeonthesame
object.Theresultsareunpredictable.