You can renew a virtual machine lease if the lease is expiring soon.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in as an organization administrator or a role with equivalent set of rights.

Procedure

  1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the VDC you want to explore and from the secondary left panel, select Virtual Machines.
  2. Click Card Icon to view the list in a card view and, optionally, arrange the list of VMs from the Sort by drop-down menu.
  3. From the Actions menu of the virtual machine with expiring lease, select Renew Lease.

Results

The lease renews. You can see the new lease time frame in the Lease field.