3.2. Turning On a Virtual Machine

To use a virtual machine in the User Portal, you must turn it on and then connect to it. If a virtual machine is turned off, it is grayed out and displays Machine is Down.

You can be assigned an individual virtual machine or assigned to one or more virtual machines that are part of a virtual machine pool. Virtual machines in a pool are all clones of a base template, and have the same operating system and installed applications.

Procedure 3.1. Turning on a Virtual Machine

Turn on the standalone virtual machine or take a virtual machine from a pool as follows:
- To turn on a standalone virtual machine, select the virtual machine icon and click the button.
  Figure 3.1. Turn on virtual machine
- To take a virtual machine from a pool, select the virtual machine pool icon and click the button.
  Figure 3.2. Take virtual machine from a pool
  
  If there is an available virtual machine in the pool, an icon for that virtual machine will appear in your list. The rest of this procedure then applies to that virtual machine. If you can take multiple virtual machines from a pool, the icon for the virtual machine pool will change into an icon for the last virtual machine you have taken when you take the maximum number of virtual machines possible for that pool.
The virtual machine powers up.
Figure 3.3. Virtual machine powering up
When the virtual machine is powered up, the icon is no longer grayed out. The text displays as Machine is Ready. You are now ready to connect.
Figure 3.4. Virtual machine turned on

Note

You can only connect to a virtual machine after it has powered up.

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