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title: "Nutanix VM Management"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/nutanix/vm-management/"
description: "Explore the VM Details view in your Nexcess Nutanix Private Cloud to monitor metrics, access the web console, and manage VM power states."
vertical: "Hosting"
date: "2026-09-16"
last_modified: "2026-09-16"
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# Nutanix VM Management

## Overview

The Nexcess Managed Support team securely creates and provisions all Virtual Machines (VMs) in your Private Cloud. However, you cannot create new VMs directly. Instead, you can use the **VM Details** view to monitor and troubleshoot servers. Furthermore, you can manage their power states here.

First, navigate to your Project’s **Workloads** tab. Next, click on a specific VM name. This action opens a dedicated dashboard. From this interface, you can monitor performance metrics and access the remote web console. Additionally, you can perform power operations and audit configurations.

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## Parameters / Features

The VM Details interface features multiple tabs. Each tab focuses on a specific configuration or health metric:

- **Summary:** Provides a high-level VM overview. This includes IP addresses, host placement, and the guest operating system. Most importantly, you can view the power state and execute **Power Operations**: 
    - *Power Off:* Instantly cuts power to the VM.
    - *Power Cycle:* Instantly powers off and then powers on the VM.
    - *Power Reset:* Reboots the VM abruptly.
    - *Guest Shutdown:* Gracefully shuts down the guest OS.
    - *Guest Reboot:* Gracefully restarts the guest OS.
- **Console:** Opens an HTML5-based remote web console. Specifically, this provides out-of-band keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) access. Use this if standard SSH or RDP fails.
- **Hardware:** Displays the compute resources allocated to the guest. This includes vCPUs, cores per vCPU, and RAM.
- **Disks:** Lists all virtual disks and CD-ROM drives attached to the VM. It also shows their capacity and bus type.
- **NICs (Network Interface Cards):** Details the virtual network adapters connected to the VM. Furthermore, it displays MAC addresses, IP addresses, and assigned subnets.
- **Metrics:** Features detailed performance charts over time. For example, you can analyze CPU usage, memory consumption, storage I/O, and network throughput.

## Examples

The VM Details view provides essential tools for daily troubleshooting. For instance, consider these practical examples:

- **Restarting an Unresponsive Application:** A web service freezes, and SSH fails. Therefore, you navigate to the **Summary** tab. Next, you initiate a *Guest Reboot* to safely restore the service.
- **Troubleshooting Network Lockouts:** You accidentally misconfigure the firewall on your Linux VM. As a result, you open the **Console** tab. Finally, you log in directly to fix the rule.
- **Auditing Storage Capacity:** Your database VM runs low on space. First, you click on the **Disks** tab. Then, you review the exact drive size before submitting a support ticket for expansion.

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## Common Use Cases

- **Safe System Restarts:** Software updates often require a reboot. Consequently, administrators use the **Summary** screen to perform a graceful *Guest Reboot* directly from the interface.
- **Capacity Planning:** System administrators frequently use the **Metrics** tab to observe peak utilization. If CPU usage stays maxed out, they use this data to request a resource upgrade.
- **Network Auditing:** Developers often need to verify a secure backend connection. Therefore, they check the **NICs** tab to confirm IP addresses and subnets quickly.

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