Suspend VM Activity

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Suspend VM activity is used in a runbook to suspend a virtual machine that has already been added to a VMware vSphere server and is already running. This, for example, enables the runbook to suspend a running virtual machine before backing it up. Then use the Start VM activity to start it again.

The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. Additional published data is generated based on the class that you select when you define the activity.

Suspend VM Activity Required Properties

Element Description Valid Values Look up

Enter standby mode

Indicates that the guest operating system will be put in standby mode. If standby mode is not supported by the guest operating system, this option will be ignored.

Boolean

Yes

VM Path

The path to the virtual machine to be suspended

String

Yes

Suspend VM Activity Optional Properties

No optional properties are provided for this activity.

Suspend VM Activity Published Data

Name Description Value Type

Enter standby mode

Indicates whether the Enter standby mode option was selected

Boolean

VM Path

The path to the virtual machine that was suspended

String

Configuring the Suspend VM Activity

The following procedure describes the steps required to configure a Suspend VM activity.

To configure the Suspend VM Activity

  1. From the Activities pane, drag a Suspend VM activity to the active runbook.

  2. Double-click the Suspend VM activity icon. The Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Configure the settings in the Properties tab as follows:

    1. In the Configuration section, click the ellipsis button (...), and then select the VMware vSphere server connection that you want to use for this activity. Click OK.

    2. In the Properties section, enter a value for each of the required properties and the applicable optional properties. If the property is Lookup-enabled, you can click the ellipsis (…) button next to the text box to browse for a value.

      You can also use published data to automatically populate the value of the property from the data output by a previous activity in the workflow.

  4. Click Finish.