Creating VMs in AHV from Disk Images¶

Click Home in the navigation bar and select VM from the drop down menu.

Click + Create VM and fill out the following fields:

• Name - The display name of the VM being created, often confgiured to match the VM hostname
• Description - An optional field that is helpful for designating additional information about a VM, such as purpose or installed applications
• vCPUs - The number of virtual sockets presented to the VM
• Number of Cores per vCPU - The number of cores per virtual socket
• Memory - The amount of RAM presented to the VM in GB

Under Disks, click Add New Disk. Fill out the following fields and click Add:

• Type - DISK
• Operation - Clone from Image Service
• Bus Type - SCSI
• Image - The desired disk image from which to clone
• Size - Pre-populated based on the provisioned size of the selected image

Click Save.

In Prism > VM > Table, select the VM you’ve created and click Power on from the actions menu below the VM table.

Once the VM is powered on, click Launch Console to access your VM.