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- Create a new Guest
- Change the boot device of a Guest: allows the Guest to boot from its virtual disk, a virtual CD, or from network.
- Start a Guest: the flexVDI Manager will ensure that the selected Guest will start the operation is requested, and it will also restart after a shutdown.
- Start once a Guest: to boot the Guest once, without automatic restart.
- Send shutdown to a Guest: equivalent to pressing the power button on a physical machine. OS will receive an ACPI shutdown request and will stop the machine tidily
- Force stop of a Guest: is the virtual equivalent of shutting down the power source of the machine. The Guest will lose the information not saved in the moment of the shutdown, and can produce file system errors.
- Pausing a Guest
- Resuming a Guest
- Suspending a Guest
- Restoring a Guest
- Modifying a Guest. This option allows to change the virtual hardware of a Guest.
- Insert tools: inserts a virtual CD in the Guest with flexVDI Guest Tools installation software.
- Changing the Media
- Copying a Guest
- Convert a Guest into a template.
- Migrate a Guest
- Migrate flexVDI Manager: in the left area of the main window, the flexVDI Manager is shown under one of the Hosts indicating where it is running. This instance behaves like a Guest; if for some reason the Host that executes it needs to be disabled or off, flexVDI Manager can migrate to another Host. In the context menu on the flexVDI Manager icon, click "Migrate" and select the destination host. Previously it is required to have completed the flexVDI Manager clustering configuration with flexvdi-config.
- Open Guest Console
- Delete a Guest
- Convert a template into a Guest.
Pool
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Pool: group of Guest Guests. Through a Pool you can reserve Pools reserves the Hosts resources for the Guests assigned to it included in them.
- Creating a Pool
- Enabling a Pool
- Disabling a Pool
- Modifying a Pool
- Rebalancing Resources
- Deleting a Pool
Image Storage
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Image Storage: it 's is a Storage Logic logical unit of storage. Each Image Storage in every hosts created during the installations are created in a set of Hosts that are selected during its creation. It can be seen as a Volume container, or as a storage for image disks.
Volume: they are created using the physical disks defined in the father Image Storage. Guest are stored in the Volumes.
Related Tasks:
- Creating an Image Storage
- Creating a new Volume
- Creating a new External Volume
- Deleting an Image Storage
- Deleting a Volume
- Deleting an External Volume
Media Storage
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Media Storage: they areISO images image files repositories. Those files can be mounted by Guests, appearing as read only optical discs.
Related Tasks:
- Creating a new Media Storage
- Deleting a Media Storage
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Direct Storage
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Direct Storage: Provides Guests with direct access to physical disks. Those disks will only be visible to from the hosts Hosts that have been selected for that purpose, and the disks will always be available for the Guest.
Related tasks:
- Creating a new Direct Storage
- Deleting a Direct Storage
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Task
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Task: actions carried out by flexVDI Manager. In the lower part of the main window you can find the list of tasks executed by the manager, which . Each entry provides the following information:
- Object: Object that has executed the task
- Action: Action executed by the object
- Status: task status executed current status of the task started by the object (completed or pending).
- Result: Task result once it has been finished(success/error).
- Result Message: Message information at the end Detailed message about the outcome of the executiontask.
- Executed: Date and time at which the task was launched
Tasks can also be grouped the following wayare shown under four tabs:
- Session: Tasks carried out started since the beginning of the current flexVDI Dashboard session.
- Pending: Tasks which execution has not finished.
- Completed: Tasks which execution has finished.
- Scheduled: Planned tasks.