Deploy a Virtual Appliance

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Deploying and undeploying Virtual Appliances

Virtual Appliances can be deployed or undeployed from two different places:

• From the Virtual Datacenters view as explained in the Basic operations section.
• From the Virtual Appliance configuration view using the button.

When the Virtual Appliance is deployed, the button appears in green.

Virtual Appliance notifications

When an error occurs during Virtual Appliance deployment, it is notificated to the user and to the System administrator in the notification area:

Click on the notifications link to read all pending notifications.
Notifications can also be viewed in the Virtual Appliance details in the Virtual Appliances tab from the Virtual Datacenters view:

Modifying a running Virtual Appliance

When a running Virtual Appliance is modified (some Virtual Machines were added or removed), the button appears near the button.

Until that button is clicked, the changes in the Virtual Appliance will not be applied to the Hypervisor; the Virtual Appliance will not be synchronized with the target Hypervisor.

Updating a running appliance It is strongly recommended to keep all Virtual Appliances updated and synchronized with the Hypervisor to aviod errors.