VMware Host
Description
As your VMware environment expands, the manual management of all your hosts inevitably becomes more complex. Requests for new hosts are often duplicates of existing hosts. Making changes to each host becomes more time consuming and error-prone. Unfortunately, writing script to automate such operations is time consuming as well.
Automate Desktop's VM (Virtual Machine) action alleviates such issues. It incorporates a variety VM activities that allows you to automate many common virtual machine management, performance and auditing operations. For instance, you can create a task to automate the process of modifying a limitless number of hosts, freeing up time for more strategic activities. Automate Desktop can automatically generate lists of running hosts as frequently as required as well as automatically register and unregister hosts based on any event defined. Other activities include the ability to start, resume or suspend a VM, take snapshots, revert to a previous snapshot and much more.
Available activities
Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity:
| Activity | Description |
|---|---|
| VMware Host - Clone | Creates a clone (copy) of an existing virtual machine. When the cloning operation is complete, the clone is a separate virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Connect | Connects to the specified host and creates a session in which to associate subsequent VM steps. |
| VMware Host - Create Snapshot | Creates a snapshot of an existing virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Delete | Permanently deletes a virtual machine from your host system. |
| VMware Host- Delete Snapshot | Deletes an existing virtual machine snapshot. |
| VMware Host - Disconnect | Disconnects a virtual machine connection and ends a previously established session. |
| VMware Host - Install Tools | Installs VMware Tools. |
| VMware Host - List Registered VMs | Gathers all registered virtual machines and populates a dataset with the results. |
| VMware Host - List Running VMs | Retrieves all running virtual machines and populates a dataset with the results. |
| VMware Host - List Snapshots | Retrieves all snapshots and populates a dataset with the results. |
| VMware Host - Pause | Pauses the current session. |
| VMware Host - Power Off | Powers off the specified virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Power On | Powers on the specified virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Register VMs | Registers the specified virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Reset | Resets the specified virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Revert to Snapshots | Reverts to an existing virtual machine snapshot. |
| VMware Host - Suspend | Suspends a virtual machine allowing fast restart by way of the start command. |
| VMware Host - Unpause | Unpauses a paused virtual machine. |
| VMware Host - Unregister VM | Unregisters a registered virtual machine from the specified host system. |