Restarting a VMware virtual machine (soft)

Using VMware, you can restart your virtual machines in two different ways: restart (soft) and restart (hard). When you restart a virtual machine with VMware tools that are installed on the virtual machine, it is referred to as restart (soft). When you restart a virtual machine by immediately restarting it, it is referred to as a restart (hard). You can perform both hard and soft restart operations on VMware virtual machines from the IBM® BigFix console.

Before you begin

To restart (soft) a virtual machine, you must have VMware tools installed on the guest operating system of the virtual machine.

About this task

Complete the following steps to restart a VMware virtual machine (soft)

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the navigation tree in the Server Automation domain, click Virtualization > Virtual Machine Management > Power Configuration to open the list of Power Configuration Tasks.
  3. From the Power Configuration list, select Restart VM (soft).
  4. In the Task: Restart VM (soft) window, click Take Action.
  5. In the Take Action dialog box, ensure Specific computers selected in the list below is selected.
  6. To target a virtual machine to restart, select a virtual machine from the Computer Name list and click OK.

Results

When the virtual machine is restarted, the Status changes to Completed in the Action: Restart VM (soft) window.