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The following operations can be performed on a Host from flexVDI Dashboard:

• Modifying a Host
• Disable: When a Host is disabled it changes to "maintenance mode" and stops being available to any Pool to run Guests on it.
• Enable: Finishes the "disabled state" of the Host, and changes it to the regular state.
• Unregister: Takes the Host out of the control of the current flexVDI Manager. The Host is now ready to take part in another flexVDI platform.
• Shutdown.

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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.
  

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Pool: group of Guests. Pools reserves the Hosts resources for the Guests included in them.

• Creating a new Pool
• Enabling a Pool
• Disabling a Pool
• Modifying a Pool
• Rebalancing Resources
• Deleting a Pool

Image Storage

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• Creating an Image Storage
• Creating a new Volume
• Creating a new External Volume
• Deleting an Image Storage
• Deleting a Volume
• Deleting an External Volume

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Media Storage: anISO image repository. Those files can be mounted by Guests, appearing as read only optical discs.

Related Tasks:

• Creating a new Media Storage
• Deleting a Media Storage

Direct Storage

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Direct Storage: Provides Guests with direct access to physical disks. Those disks will only be visible from the Hosts that have been selected for that purpose, and the disks will always be available for the Guest. 

Related tasks:

• Creating a Direct Storage
• Deleting a Direct Storage

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