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Virtual Environment Scenario

A typical virtual environment includes a domain manager, an AM remote agent computer, and various virtualization server types containing DSM agent and scalability virtual machines as shown in the following illustration:

The DSM domain manager manages all computers, and the AM remote agent computer collects details about the VMs for both RVI and virtual WOL operations.

In this scenario, you can perform the virtual WOL using the following methods:

• Send a software delivery job to a virtual machine

  The job container is sent to the appropriate scalability server, which wakes up a VM using the WOL functionality of CAF API.

• Use the DSM Explorer on the domain manager to wake a particular VM

  For more information, see Wake a Virtual Machine Using DSM Explorer.

• Use remote control to connect to a VM by waking it first
• Remote control wakes up a VM when you click Power Up on the Connection Settings, Advanced tab. Also, you can connect to a sleep mode VM. You are prompted with a message whether to wake up and connect to the VM.
• Send a request to the OSIM boot server to wake a virtual machine as part of the OS installation job

  You can configure the Wake-On-LAN option in the Setup OS Installation dialog during the activation of OS installation.