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Chapter 10. Working With Virtual Machines

10.1. About Working with Virtual Machines
10.2. Best Practices for Virtual Machines
10.2.1. Monitor VMs for Max Capacity
10.2.2. Install Required Tools and Drivers
10.3. VM Lifecycle
10.4. Creating VMs
10.5. Accessing VMs
10.6. Stopping and Starting VMs
10.7. Assigning VMs to Hosts
10.7.1. Affinity Groups
10.8. Virtual Machine Snapshots for VMware
10.8.1. Limitations on VM Snapshots
10.8.2. Configuring VM Snapshots
10.8.3. Using VM Snapshots
10.9. Changing the VM Name, OS, or Group
10.10. Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name
10.11. Changing the Service Offering for a VM
10.11.1. CPU and Memory Scaling for Running VMs
10.11.2. Updating Existing VMs
10.11.3. Configuring Dynamic CPU and RAM Scaling
10.11.4. How to Dynamically Scale CPU and RAM
10.11.5. Limitations
10.12. Resetting the Virtual Machine Root Volume on Reboot
10.13. Moving VMs Between Hosts (Manual Live Migration)
10.14. Deleting VMs
10.15. Working with ISOs
10.15.1. Adding an ISO
10.15.2. Attaching an ISO to a VM
10.15.3. Changing a VM's Base Image