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Chapter 3 Managing and Configuring Stage Manager
To shut down a Solaris guest operating system
ForSolarisguestoperatingsystems,navigatetothevirtualmachineconsoleandrun
thiscommand:
> shutdown -y -g0 -i5
Undeploying Templates
YoucanundeployatemplatetounregisterthevirtualmachinefromVirtualCenter.
Undeployatemplatebeforesuchoperationsaspublishing,exporting,consolidating,
cloning,anddeletingatemplate.
Youcanundeployavirtualmachineandsaveitsstateorundeployavirtualmachine
anddiscardthestate.Fortemplatesthatarepowered
off,theseoptionstosaveor
discardstatearenotavailablebecauseastatedoesnotexist.Savingmemorystatehelps
youtodebugmemory‐specificissues.
IfanESXServerhostgoesofflineorsomeonemanuallyremovesavirtualmachinefrom
VirtualCenterinventory,thestandardundeployoperationdoesnotwork.
See
“UndeployingTemplateswithForce”onpage 109.
To undeploy a template
1Fromtheleftpane,clickVMTemplates.
2Ifthetemplateisdeployed,movethepointeroverthetemplatenameandchoose
Undeploy,Undeploy‐SaveState,orUndeploy‐DiscardStatefromthemenu.
Publishing Templates
Publishingatemplatemakesitavailableforuseinbuildingmultimachine
configurationswithoutreinstallingsoftwareorperformingsetuptasksagain.Theuse
oftemplatesensuresthatvirtualmachinesareconsistentlyconfiguredwithoperating
systems,versions,systempacks,andmoreacrossanentireorganization.
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OTEStorageleasesarenotapplicabletopublishedtemplates.Onceatemplate
changesfromapublishedtounpublishedstate,thestorageleasebegins.See
“ReviewingtheResourceCleanupTab”onpage 103.