3. Configuring Virtual Machines
Overview
This section covers ongoing configuration changes to existing virtual machines. Adjusting hardware resources, managing storage and network settings, applying tags and groupings, and handling specialized operations like encryption, BIOS-to-UEFI conversion, and ISO management.
Most of these tasks can be performed through either the ITS Private Cloud Portal or the vss-cli, depending on the article and your preference. The guides below walk through each operation step by step.
How-to guides
- How-to add a virtual disk to VM using vss-cli
- How-to Change CPU, Memory, Network, HDD specs after a VM is created
- How-to connect and disconnect Virtual Machine network adapters
- How-to switch your Virtual Machine storage type to SSD or HDD in the ITS Private Cloud Portal
- How-to Move a virtual machine to a new folder
- How-to Upgrade a virtual machine to the latest supported hardware version
- How-to Convert Windows 10/2016+ Build 1703 or later VSS VM from BIOS to UEFI
- How-to run Windows Server 2016+ with VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller
- How-to Consolidate virtual machine disks
- How-to encrypt your virtual machine
- How-to manage VM Service Tagging (For ITS managed VMs only)
- How-to Manage Virtual Machine HA Group tagging
- How-to Upload an ISO image to VSS
- How-to Load an ISO image in a Virtual Machine
- How-to Manage Messages