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Changing the Service Offering for a VM
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6. Make the desired changes to the following:
• Display name: Enter a new display name if you want to change the name of the VM.
• OS Type: Select the desired operating system.
• Group: Enter the group name for the VM.
7. Click Apply.
11.11. Changing the Service Offering for a VM
To upgrade or downgrade the level of compute resources available to a virtual machine, you can
change the VM's compute offering.
1. Log in to the CloudPlatform UI as a user or admin.
2. In the left navigation, click Instances.
3. Choose the VM that you want to work with.
4. (Skip this step if you have enabled dynamic VM scaling; see Section 11.11.1, “CPU and Memory
Scaling for Running VMs”.)
Click the Stop button to stop the VM.
5.
Click the Change Service button.
The Change service dialog box is displayed.
6. Select the offering you want to apply to the selected VM.
7. Click OK.
11.11.1. CPU and Memory Scaling for Running VMs
(Supported on VMware and XenServer)
It is not always possible to accurately predict the CPU and RAM requirements when you first deploy
a VM. You might need to increase these resources at any time during the life of a VM. You can
dynamically modify CPU and RAM levels to scale up these resources for a running VM without
incurring any downtime.
Dynamic CPU and RAM scaling can be used in the following cases:
• User VMs on hosts running VMware and XenServer.
• System VMs on VMware.
• VMware Tools or XenServer Tools must be installed on the virtual machine.
• The new requested CPU and RAM values must be within the constraints allowed by the hypervisor
and the VM operating system.
• New VMs that are created after the installation of CloudPlatform 4.2 can use the dynamic scaling
feature. If you are upgrading from a previous version of CloudPlatform, your existing VMs created