How to Restart a Job
You can restart most jobs that fail or are canceled. However, for jobs that can put a virtual machine into a Failed state, only the most recent job of that type for the virtual machine can be restarted.
The following jobs can cause a virtual machine to have Failed status:
- Create Virtual Machine
- Move Virtual Machine
- Store Virtual Machine
- Update Virtual Machine
- Refresh Virtual Machine (if the virtual machine was updated outside Virtual Machine Manager or the host stopped responding during the job)
Note
You can use the Repair action for a virtual machine to either restart the job that caused the virtual machine to fail or return the virtual machine to its state before the job ran. For more information, see How to Repair a Virtual Machine.
For jobs that run for a long time, such as virtual machine migration, intermediate results are stored periodically while the job is running, and the Restart action attempts to resume the job from the last known state. For certain jobs, such as starting a virtual machine, no intermediate results are created, and the job starts from the beginning.
To restart some jobs, you must enter credentials. For example, Add Host requires credentials to be used on the virtual machine host to install the agent.
To restart a job
In Jobs view, select the job you want to restart in the results pane.
In the Actions pane, click Restart. Or, right-click the job and then click Restart.
See Also
Concepts
About Jobs
How to Monitor Jobs