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10.4.1. Individual ....................................................................................................... 74
10.4.2. Support Matrix for an Isolated Network (Combination) ...................................... 75
10.4.3. Support Matrix for Shared Network (Combination) ............................................ 76
10.4.4. Support Matrix for Basic Zone ........................................................................ 77
10.5. Network Offerings ..................................................................................................... 77
10.5.1. Creating a New Network Offering ................................................................... 78
10.5.2. Changing the Network Offering on a Guest Network ........................................ 81
10.5.3. Creating and Changing a Virtual Router Network Offering ................................. 82
11. Working With Virtual Machines 85
11.1. About Working with Virtual Machines ......................................................................... 85
11.2. Best Practices for Virtual Machines ........................................................................... 85
11.2.1. Monitor VMs for Max Capacity ........................................................................ 86
11.2.2. Install Required Tools and Drivers .................................................................. 86
11.3. VM Lifecycle ............................................................................................................ 86
11.4. Creating VMs ........................................................................................................... 87
11.4.1. Creating a VM from a template ....................................................................... 87
11.4.2. Creating a VM from an ISO ............................................................................ 88
11.4.3. Configuring Usage of Linked Clones on VMware ............................................. 88
11.5. Accessing VMs ......................................................................................................... 89
11.6. Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name ...................................... 89
11.7. Stopping and Starting VMs ....................................................................................... 90
11.8. Assigning VMs to Hosts ............................................................................................ 90
11.8.1. Affinity Groups ............................................................................................... 91
11.9. Virtual Machine Snapshots for VMware ...................................................................... 92
11.9.1. Limitations on VM Snapshots ......................................................................... 93
11.9.2. Configuring VM Snapshots ............................................................................. 93
11.9.3. Using VM Snapshots ..................................................................................... 93
11.10. Changing the VM Name, OS, or Group .................................................................... 94
11.11. Changing the Service Offering for a VM ................................................................... 95
11.11.1. CPU and Memory Scaling for Running VMs .................................................. 95
11.11.2. Updating Existing VMs ................................................................................. 96
11.11.3. Configuring Dynamic CPU and RAM Scaling ................................................. 96
11.11.4. How to Dynamically Scale CPU and RAM ..................................................... 96
11.11.5. Limitations ................................................................................................... 96
11.12. Resetting the Virtual Machine Root Volume on Reboot ............................................. 97
11.13. Moving VMs Between Hosts (Manual Live Migration) ................................................ 97
11.14. Deleting VMs .......................................................................................................... 98
11.15. Recovering a Destroyed VM .................................................................................... 98
11.16. Working with ISOs .................................................................................................. 98
11.16.1. Adding an ISO ............................................................................................. 99
11.16.2. Attaching an ISO to a VM ........................................................................... 100
11.16.3. Changing a VM's Base Image ..................................................................... 100
12. Working With Hosts 103
12.1. Adding Hosts .......................................................................................................... 103
12.2. Scheduled Maintenance and Maintenance Mode for Hosts ........................................ 103
12.2.1. vCenter and Maintenance Mode ................................................................... 103
12.2.2. XenServer and Maintenance Mode ............................................................... 103
12.3. Disabling and Enabling Zones, Pods, and Clusters ................................................... 104
12.4. Removing Hosts ..................................................................................................... 104
12.4.1. Removing XenServer and KVM Hosts ........................................................... 105
12.4.2. Removing vSphere Hosts ............................................................................. 105
12.5. Re-Installing Hosts .................................................................................................. 105
12.6. Maintaining Hypervisors on Hosts ............................................................................ 105