VM registration ensures availability of a VM upon disaster recovery, data migration, simultaneous failure of the management and service nodes, or unexpected operating system reinstallation. You can register a VM deployed on one management platform with another management platform to fast recover the VM. Before you register a VM, verify that the storage data of the VM is intact. You can filter VMs by VM name and host name to register designated VMs. After you register a VM, reconfigure the port profile, virtual switch, virtual firewall, VLAN policy, anti-virus, PCI devices, USB devices, network USB devices, vGPUs, GPUs, SR-IOV enabled devices, TPM devices, passthrough network, smart NICs, NUMA nodes, Intel RDT noisy neighbor quieting, VNC proxy, VM CPU operating mode, microsegmentation, and integrity check.
When you register a VM with a cluster, you must select a shared storage pool.
When you register a VM with a host, make sure the VM uses shared storage or local storage.
If you register a VM that contains snapshots,only the restore point snapshot for the VM will be retained after the VM is restored. The image chain for the snapshots taken before the restore point will be consolidated and the snapshots taken after the restore point will be deleted.
If you register a VM that contains snapshots, memory snapshots will not be retained.
As a best practice, use VM registration and VM DRS in conjunction. This allows a cluster with enough resources to boot all registered VMs correctly and helps maintain load balancing of compute resources.
On the top navigation bar, click
From the left navigation pane, select
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Click a storage pool, and then select one or multiple VMs.
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