Managing Virtual Machines and Containers

This chapter describes how to perform day-to-day operations on virtual machines and containers.

In this chapter:

• Creating Virtual Machines and Containers
• Performing Initial Configuration of Virtual Machines and Containers
• Starting, Stopping, Restarting, and Querying Status of Virtual Machines and Containers
• Listing Virtual Machines and Containers
• Cloning Virtual Machines and Containers
• Suspending Virtual Machines and Containers
• Running Commands in Virtual Machines and Containers
• Deleting Virtual Machines and Containers
• Viewing Detailed Information about Virtual Machines and Containers
• Managing Virtual Machine and Container Backups
• Managing Templates
• Managing Snapshots
• Migrating Virtual Machines and Containers
• Performing Container-Specific Operations
• Performing Virtual Machine-Specific Operations
• Converting Third-Party Virtual Machines
• Converting Containers with almaconvert8
• Converting Containers to Virtual Machines with the c2v-convert Tool