Citrix Systems 5.6 manual Vm-reboot, Vm-reset-powerstate, Vm-resume, Vm-shutdown

Migrate the specified VMs between physical hosts. The host parameter can be either the name or the UUID of the XenServer host.

By default, the VM will be suspended, migrated, and resumed on the other host. The live parameter activates XenMotion and keeps the VM running while performing the migration, thus minimizing VM downtime to less than a second. In some circumstances such as extremely memory-heavy workloads in the VM, XenMotion automatically falls back into the default mode and suspends the VM for a brief period of time before completing the memory transfer.

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

vm-reboot

vm-reboot[<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...] [force=<true>]

Reboot the specified VMs.

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

Use the force argument to cause an ungraceful shutdown, akin to pulling the plug on a physical server.

vm-reset-powerstate

vm-reset-powerstate[<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...] {force=true}

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

This is an advanced command only to be used when a member host in a pool goes down. You can use this command to force the pool master to reset the power-state of the VMs to be halted. Essentially this forces the lock on the VM and its disks so it can be subsequently started on another pool host. This call requires the force flag to be specified, and fails if it is not on the command-line.

vm-resume

vm-resume[<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...] [force=<true false>] [on=<XenServer host UUID>]

Resume the specified VMs.

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

If the VM is on a shared SR in a pool of hosts, use the on argument to specify which host in the pool on which to start it. By default the system will determine an appropriate host, which might be any of the members of the pool.

vm-shutdown

vm-shutdown[<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...] [force=<true false>]

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