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Virtual Machine Lifecycle Control
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System maintains library of VMs and images, hosts
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Like physical resources VMs have ‘facts’ describing attributes
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VMs can be grouped
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Actions can be performed on VMs:
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Provision, Shutdown, Suspend, Create Template, Create VM,
Create Template From Physical, Create VM From Physical,
Clone VM, Clone Online VM, Clone Template, Destroy,
Restart, Migrate, Check Status, Template to Instance,
Instance to Template, Affiliate With Host, Make Standalone,
Checkpoint, Restore, Delete, Cancel Action