Tag: Get-Annotation

Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 2)

April 5, 2014

I recently talked about using termination dates on VMs in order to control VM sprawl in the datacenter with the help of using virtual machine type annotations (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-n1). Now that we have identified the termination date and notified the user who requested the VM that it is approaching the end of its lifetime, how do … More Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 2)

Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 1)

April 4, 2014

When users request a number of VMs which are not going to persistent in your datacenter this can lead to a large VM sprawl if not managed correctly. One method to do this would be to create a number of virtual machine type annotations based on the creation of the VM to include tags to  filter … More Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 1)