Palette’s VM Management solution allows you to deploy and manage Virtual Machines (VMs) alongside containerized applications.

There are three ways you can create a new VM:

• 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 Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) or optical disk image (ISO).

• Clone an existing VM.

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

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 paravirtualization.

• Standard VM Operations

• Create a VM Template