Managing virtual machines in LS Cloud

Overview

Each virtual machine (VM) is an independent system with an independent set of virtual hardware. Its main features are the following:

• A virtual machine resembles and works like a regular computer. It has its own virtual hardware. Software applications can run in virtual machines without any modifications or adjustment.
• Virtual machine configuration can be changed easily, for example, by adding new virtual disks or memory.
• Although virtual machines share physical hardware resources, they are fully isolated from each other (file system, processes, sysctl variables) and the compute node.
• A virtual machine can run any supported guest operating system.

The following table lists the current virtual machine configuration limits:

Resource	Limit
RAM	32 GiB
CPU	8 virtual CPUs
Storage	15 volumes, 512 TiB each
Network	15 NICs

In this section

• Creating virtual machines
• Connecting to virtual machines
• Managing virtual machine power state
• Reconfiguring virtual machines
• Shelving virtual machines
• Rescuing virtual machines
• Managing guest tools
• Troubleshooting virtual machines
• Deleting virtual machines