August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 16m
English

Lifecycle management pretty much explains itself. Oracle VM lifecycle management describes the change in state of the virtual machine from creation to destruction and every state in between. For example, the lifecycle of a virtual machine starts with the machine being built, then goes on to its being started, paused, restored, halted, and eventually deleted. This is the virtual machine lifecycle. Of course, you can transition between a number of states, and this chapter describes those states.
Within the lifecycle of a virtual machine are five major states: nonexistent, halted, running, paused, and suspended. ...