Viewing and modifying virtual appliances

View or modify details for your virtual appliances to suit the changing needs of your environment.

Before you begin

You must be assigned System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission) to perform these steps.
You must be assigned one of the following permissions to perform these steps:
  • System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only)
  • System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission)
  • Resource level administration role with Read access rights permission (ACL) to view a specific instance
  • Resource level administration role with Write or All access rights permission (ACL) to view and manage 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 > Virtual Appliances.
  2. Select a virtual appliance to view. You can view or modify the following fields. Editable fields display either edit or remove links, or are underlined with a dash line.
    Jobs
    Specifies the pending and started jobs associated with the virtual appliance instance. Click the underlined numbers to view the specific jobs. Click View Details to view the Job Queue pane.
    Description
    Specifies a description of the virtual appliance instance. When there is no description, (none) is located in this field. Click (none) to add a description.
    Status
    Specifies the state of the virtual appliance instance. Its values are:
    Available
    Indicates that the virtual appliance instance is available for redeployment.
    Unavailable
    Indicates that the virtual appliance instance is stopped but remains available for redeployment in the future.
    Created on
    Specifies the date and time when the virtual appliance instance was created.
    Updated on
    Specifies the date and time when the virtual appliance instance was last updated.
    In cloud group
    Specifies the cloud group where this virtual machine is located by providing a link to the cloud group details pane. You can click the link to display the details of the cloud group where this virtual appliance instance is running.
    Virtual machine configurations
    Lists the virtual machines that are included in this virtual appliance instance. To modify the virtual machine configuration, click Add more in the Virtual machine configurations menu.
    Access granted to
    Shows a list of users and groups with access to this virtual appliance instance. The user who first deployed the virtual appliance instance is automatically granted all access to the virtual image as the owner. You can add more users to access this virtual appliance instance. For more information about user permissions, see Understanding security roles for Cloud Pak System.
    Comments
    Specifies optional information that a user can append to a virtual appliance instance.