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Create and Manage VMs

Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) allows you to deploy and manage Virtual Machines (VMs) alongside containerized applications.

VM Creation​

You can create a VM in one of the following ways:

  • Deploy a VM from a template. Palette provides out-of-the-box templates, or your organization may provide templates. For the latter, refer to the Create a VM Template guide.

  • Create an empty VM and install the Operating System (OS) using a standard method, such as a Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) or optical disk image (ISO).

  • Clone an existing VM. For more information, refer to Clone a VM.

Administrators can also import VMs from their existing VMware vSphere environment into Palette.

Optional Components​

Although no additional components are required in VMs, the QEMU Guest Agent is an optional component that runs inside a VM and provides runtime information.

Additionally, Virtio is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where only the guest's device driver knows it is deployed in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to receive high performance network and disk operations and provides most of the performance benefits of para-virtualization.

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We recommend installing the QEMU guest agent to display additional details in Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator. We also recommend installing VirtIO drivers to ensure you can use the para-virtualized hardware properly.

VM Management​

After creating your VMs, you can make updates to the VM such as adding disk storage and adding network interfaces. You can also take snapshots of the VMs and use those snapshots to provision other VMs. You can also migrate them to a different node. Refer to the following resources to learn about VM management.

Advanced Topics​

Beyond the standard Virtual Machine (VM) operations such as deployment, clone, and migration, Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) supports further customization and advanced use cases. For more information, refer to the Advanced Topics section.