Oracle VM Manager: Restart, Shutdown and Delete Servers

It is easy to remotely manage the Oracle VM Server. We could be anywhere in the world and we can carry out the restart, shutdown, and (unfortunately) delete the Server operations from a distance.

So, such an opportunity to manage large Oracle IntraCloud farms from a distance is a great deal, given that the ever-increasing need to be able to provide HA and continuous management, we could have teams that could geographically manage the Oracle Cloud Centers 24x7x7--the last 7 for the continents that will help serve up the infinite demand.

To restart a server, click on the Reboot button on the Servers page:

If there are any VMs running on the servers we will be prompted to migrate them to other servers. Click on the Migrate button.

If we restart an Oracle VM Server without migrating, the VMs will either be shutdown OR restarted on the next Oracle VM Server, depending on how the HA (Auto or Manual) is configured on the Oracle VM environment.

Click on the Refresh button so that the server status changes from Rebooting to Active. The server could temporarily display the Unavailable status during the reboot process.

Shutting down the server is also a simple operation. In order to shutdown, carry out the following operations:

Click on the Power Off button on the Server page:

Again we will be prompted to migrate the VMs to other hosts and should we ignore and not carry out this function, the VMs will either be restarted OR shutdown again depending on how the HA is enabled. If it's Auto, then the VMs will look at the preferred VM Server. If it's Manual then it will look for the nearest available VM Server. Should there be no VM Server available, then the VMs will be shutdown and be fired up the moment a VM Server becomes available.

Once again, upon clicking on the Refresh button, the status of this server could be validated to Unreachable status from the Shutting Down status.

Deleting the VM Server can be easily done by just clicking the Server to delete on the Servers page and then click on the Delete button.

Running VMs on this server will obviously need to be migrated to other VM servers. Select the VMs to migrate and then click on the Migrate button.

If we ignore or forget to migrate these VMs to another server, then all of our VMs will be deleted! You have been warned!