Managing VMs

When VMs have been deployed in your infrastructure, you can start the administration using the available tools and features offered by vSphere Client. Several actions can be performed on VMs to keep a clean inventory and a healthy infrastructure. Let's take a look at some common procedures an administrator performs on a regular basis.

Adding or registering an existing VM

VMs can be created or deployed using the different methods shown previously. In some circumstances, you might need to put in your production environment a pre-created VM from another source. You may be wondering how to deploy this virtual machine.

First, using vSphere Client, you need to upload the VM files (generally the .vmx and .vmdk files...