What You Can Do With Virtual Machine Management - Symantec ALTIRIS SERVER MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

36 Introducing Virtual Machine Management

What you can do with Virtual Machine Management

What you can do with Virtual Machine Management
The Virtual Machine Management component lets you manage your virtual
environment.
See "About Virtual Machine Management"
See "About Virtual Machine Management tasks"
See "About Virtual Machine Management portal page"
Features of the Virtual Machine Management component
Table 6-1
Option
Create virtual machine
Create virtual disk
Create virtual network
Run power management
tasks on virtual machines
Create snapshot of a virtual
machine
Revert snapshot of a virtual
machine
Collect inventory of the
virtual environment
on page 33.
on page 35.
Description
You can create virtual machines manually or with the Create
Virtual Machine wizard.
See "Creating a virtual machine"
You can create virtual disks for the virtual machines that
you create.
See "Creating a virtual disk"
You can create virtual network for the virtual machine. Each
virtual machine requires a network to connect to the host
machine.
See "Creating a virtual network"
You can change the power state of your virtual machines.
See "Starting, stopping, suspending, and resuming a virtual
machine" on page 59.
You can create snapshots to preserve certain states of your
virtual machines.
See "Creating a snapshot"
You can use the revert snapshot option to restore a
previously saved state of the virtual machine.
See "Reverting a snapshot"
You can collect the inventory data of the host machines and
their virtual environment.
See "Gathering inventory on the host machine"
on page 34.
on page 48.
on page 51.
on page 55.
on page 62.
on page 62.
on page 44.