6.5.1

Basic Virtual Machine Management Workflows
With the basic virtual machine management workows, you can perform basic operations on virtual
machines, for example, create, rename, or delete a virtual machine, upgrade virtual hardware, and others.
Create custom virtual
machine
Creates a virtual machine with the specied conguration options and
additional devices.
Create simple
dvPortGroup virtual
machine
Creates a simple virtual machine. The network used is a Distributed Virtual
Port Group.
Create simple virtual
machine
Creates a virtual machine with the most common devices and conguration
options.
Delete virtual machine
Removes a virtual machine from the inventory and datastore.
Get virtual machines by
name
Returns a list of virtual machines from all registered vCenter Server instances
that match the provided expression.
Mark as template
Converts an existing virtual machine to a template, not allowing it to start.
You can use templates to create virtual machines.
Mark as virtual machine
Converts an existing template to a virtual machine, allowing it to start.
Move virtual machine to
folder
Moves a virtual machine to a specied virtual machine folder.
Move virtual machine to
resource pool
Moves a virtual machine to a resource pool. If the target resource pool is not
in the same cluster, you must use the migrate or relocate workows.
Move virtual machines
to folder
Moves several virtual machines to a specied virtual machine folder.
Move virtual machines
to resource pool
Moves several virtual machines to a resource pool.
Register virtual machine
Registers a virtual machine. The virtual machine les must be placed in an
existing datastore and must not be already registered.
Reload virtual machine
Forces vCenter Server to reload a virtual machine.
Rename virtual machine
Renames an existing virtual machine on the vCenter Server system or host
and not on the datastore.
Set virtual machine
performance
Changes performance seings such as shares, minimum and maximum
values, shaping for network, and disk access of a virtual machine.
Unregister virtual
machine
Removes an existing virtual machine from the inventory.
Upgrade virtual
machine hardware
(force if required)
Upgrades the virtual machine hardware to the latest revision that the host
supports. This workow forces the upgrade to continue, even if VMware
Tools is out of date. If the VMware Tools is out of date, forcing the upgrade
to continue reverts the guest network seings to the default seings. To
avoid this situation, upgrade VMware Tools before running the workow.
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