Starting and stopping virtual machines

Virtual machines are not always running and in the started state. When a virtual machine is in the stopped state, you can restart the virtual machine to redeploy the virtual machine into the cloud.

Before you begin

You must be assigned one of the following permissions to start or stop a virtual machine:
  • System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission)
  • Resource level administration role with Write or All access rights permission (ACL) for a specific instance

About this task

You can use the console or the command line interface to complete this task. For the command line information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Click Patterns > Manage > Virtual Machines.
  2. Select the virtual machine that you want to start or stop.
    The detailed information for that virtual machine is displayed.
  3. To start the virtual machine, click the Power On icon in the toolbar. To stop the virtual machine, click the Power Off icon in the toolbar. Click OK to confirm that you want to stop the virtual machine.
    Attention: If your application is running DB2 and the application is stopped, and an operation that cannot be interrupted (RESTORE DATABASE, for example) is forced, the operation must be successfully restarted before the database becomes available again.