Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

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Using the VMware Adapter
Overview
This chapter guides you through using the features of the VMware Adapter in CWA, including:
The rest of this section describes VMware job tasks, monitoring VMware jobs, and VMware events.
VMware Job Tasks
Using the VMware Adapter, you can create and schedule jobs in CWA to perform various types of tasks to help manage 
your VMware environment, including:
Power management tasks – Manage the power state of the virtual machines including:
Querying the power state of the virtual machines in your environment
Powering virtual machines ON and OFF
Suspending and resetting virtual machines
Rebooting and suspending a guest virtual machine, and putting a guest virtual machine in standby mode
Snapshot management tasks – Capture and restore snapshots on the virtual machines in your environment
Host management tasks – Manage the host servers for the virtual machines in your environment, including:
Powering host servers up and down
Rebooting host servers
Moving host servers into maintenance and moving them out of maintenance
Configuration management tasks – Manage the configuration of the virtual machines in your environment, including:
Reconfigure CPU, memory, disk space and network connections on the virtual machines
Migrate virtual machines