Suspend a VM - vCenter and SCVMM

Suspending a VM pauses the virtual machine activity. All transactions are frozen until you power on the VM. Consumed host memory and CPU are released back to host.

1. In the SA Client, select the Virtualization tab to display your virtualization inventory.
2. Navigate to the VM you want to suspend.
3. Select the desired VM and right-click or select the Actions menu and select VM Power > Suspend to display the Run Power Control window.
4. Run Power Control: Verify the VM you want to suspend, then select Next. Or you can select Start Job to accept the remaining defaults and run the job.
5. Scheduling: Select when you want the suspend job to run, then select Next.
6. Notifications: Optionally enter a notifier, then select Next.
7. Job Status: Select the Start Job or Schedule Job button. This runs the job or schedules it to be run in the future and displays the Job ID number in the window banner. You can use the Job ID number to look up the job under the Jobs and Sessions tab.

   When the job runs, it suspends the VM and displays the results.

Use Power On to restart a suspended VM. For more information, see Power on/off a VM - vCenter and SCVMM .