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The following Virtual Machine specs can be updated via the VSS Portal:

  • Memory - Size of the Virtual Machine memory.
  • CPU - Number of virtual CPUs.
  • CD/DVD backend - Client device or one of our ISO images (Load an ISO image in a Virtual Machine)
  • Networking - Add/remove interface or update backend network. 
  • Hard Disk Drive - Update capacity, add new or delete disk.
  • State - Power On/Off, Reset, Restart, Delete.
  • Name - Virtual Machine Name.
  • Folder - Containing Folder.
  • Admin - Administrator.
  • Usage - Update its usage to either Production, Development, QA or Testing.
  • Description - Application and/or service description.
  • Boot Delay* - This adds a delay to the initial POST screen, showing it for longer and giving you more time to access the BIOS setup. 
  • Informational contacts. Contacts listed wouldn't necessarily need to know deep technical details, just that something is happening (or has happened) that could affect their application or their service connected with that VM.

  • Template. Transform your virtual machine into a template to deploy multiple virtual machines and to keep the current installed software as a reference for new deployments.

    * Virtual Machine needs to be Powered Off in order to process the change request.

However, the VSS CLI provides more attributes to update and advanced features to schedule changes.

Step-by-step guide

VSS Portal
  1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
  2. Look for the VM to edit and click the button.
  3. From the VM tab, click con the area you wish to change.
  4. Update the required information.
  5. Click on SAVE.


VSS CLI

Using https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

  1. Look for the VM uuid

    vss-cli compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> <subcommand>
    Available sub-commands 
    Usage: vss-cli compute vm set [OPTIONS] VM_ID_OR_NAME COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Manage virtual machine attributes such as cpu, memory, disk, network
  backing, cd, etc..

Options:
  -s, --schedule [%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S|%Y-%m-%d %H:%M]
                                  Schedule change in a given point in time
                                  based on format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.

  -u, --user-meta TEXT            User metadata in key=value format. These
                                  tags are stored in the request.

  --wait                          wait for request(s) to complete
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  admin            Administrator
  alarm            Acknowledge or clear alarms
  boot-bios        Enable or disable Boot to BIOS
  boot-delay       Boot delay in milliseconds
  cd               CD/DVD device management
  client           Client (Metadata)
  client-note      Client note (Metadata)
  consolidate      Disk consolidation
  controller       IDE/SCSI controller management
  cpu              Update virtual machine CPU count and settings
  custom-spec      Custom specification
  description      Description (Metadata)
  disk             Disk management
  domain           Domain migration
  export           Export to OVF
  extra-cfg        GuestInfo extra config entries.
  floppy           Floppy backing
  folder           Logical folder
  guest-cmd        Execute command on OS host
  guest-os         Update guest operating system
  ha-group         HA Group (Metadata)
  inform           Informational contacts (Metadata)
  memory           Update virtual machine Memory count and settings
  name             Logical name
  nic              Network adapter management
  snapshot         Snapshot management
  state            Power state
  template         Mark vm as template or vice versa.
  tools            Manage VMware Tools
  usage            Usage (Metadata)
  version          Manage virtual machine virtual hardware version and...
  vmrc-copy-paste  Enable or disable VMRC copy-paste settings
  vss-option       Enable or disable given vss-option
  vss-service      VSS Service name or ID

  2. Follow any of the examples in the VSS CLI documentation or explore the VSS CLI with the VSS CLI Shell:

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