Virtual Machine Management elements

The Virtual Machine Management page contains these elements:

VM Entities list

The VM Entities list shows the managed entities. It is continually visible and can be collapsed or expanded by selecting the left arrow in the upper-right corner of the VM entities list. The list is automatically updated when the GUI perceives any action warranting an update (for example, a VM Guest was just created or deleted from the GUI). Additionally, the list is refreshed automatically approximately every minute. A Refresh button allows the user to manually refresh the list to determine whether it has been changed, perhaps by some other login.

Selecting the Pause updates checkbox in the title bar allows the users to pause any reoccurring updates while on a given page including the VM Entities list. While the Pause updates checkbox is selected the page will not be automatically refreshed and the list will not be updated. Selecting the Refresh button will still refresh the VM Entities list.

There is also a "Pause Updates" checkbox available at the bottom of the VM Entities list. This checkbox, when checked, pauses the continuous refresh of the VM Entities list that occurs when a user enters this page. When the page is refreshed, the "Pause Updates" checkbox will reset to unchecked. When this checkbox is checked, selecting the Refresh button will still refresh the VM Entities list.

When an entity is selected in this list, its current data will be retrieved and displayed in the VM Management work area. This work area displays additional details on the selected entity (VM Host or VM Guest).

VM Management work area

Use the VM entities list to interact with VM host or guest entities (for example, create, view, or edit). The appearance and content of the VM Management work area depends on the selected entity and what action is being taken.

Select a VM host or guest entity to populate the VM Management work area with informational index cards that are associated with the following tabs:

VM Info
Software
Network
Media

Note:

Details about the contents of these tabs are given in the work area topics.

The bottom of the work area shows action buttons that can be selected at any time. The set of buttons will change and some can be disabled according to the current entity type and the action being performed on it.

You can select action buttons on the VM Management page at any time. The buttons that are displayed depend on the selected entity type.

Note:

When any action is taken that requires a request to be sent to the PMAC server, the work area is inactive (grayed out), which indicates that a request is in progress and no controls can be accessed in the work area. You can still select another entity to view from the VM Entities list instead of waiting for the current response.