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
Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
Look for the VM to edit and click the
button.
From the VM tab, click con the area you wish to change.
Update the required information.
Click on SAVE.
Using https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install
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 IDFollow any of the examples in the VSS CLI documentation or explore the VSS CLI with the VSS CLI Shell:
