In vSphere 6.5, you can change the VM power state in different ways. To change the power state, right-click the VM and select Power followed by the type of the state.
You have the following states available:
- Power On and Power Off: This function powers the VM on or off immediately without any interaction with the guest OS. Be careful when powering off the VM because the process doesn't perform a clean shutdown of open files and there is the risk of corrupting some files that are not closed properly.
- Suspend: This feature suspends the VM, freezing its current state. When the VM is resumed, it starts from the state that was suspended.
- Reset: This command emulates the reset button of a physical computer.
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