Performing Guest State Management

The Guest Overview dashboard includes links to change the state of the virtual machine, which is useful when preparing to take a snapshot, or when performing remedial work. For example, you can pause or turn off a guest machine while you change its configuration, and restart the machine for changes to take effect.

1. In Service Center, click Status > Service Modules.

2. Click the Hyper-V link.

3. In the Managed Sites table, click a site name.

4. Scroll down to the Managed Hosts table.

5. Click a host machine name.

6. Scroll down to the Guests table.

7. Click a guest machine name.

8. Under Guest State Management, click one of the following links:

   • Start

   • Turn Off

   • Pause

   • Reset

   • Resume

   • Revert

   • Shut Down

   • Save

   • Delete Saved State