# Virtual Machines

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## Section Features & Filters Record Search Custom Views CSV Export JSON Export Paging Config

- Standard Filters: OS Type
- Advanced Filters: Status Managed Server Type

The Virtual Machines tab lists all managed and unmanaged VMs across HPE Morpheus Enterprise. Managed VMs are either provisioned by HPE Morpheus Enterprise, or are inventoried/discovered VMs that have been converted to managed. Unmanaged VMs are typically inventoried/discovered VMs from Cloud integrations.

## Virtual Machine Change Cloud

Change Cloud functionality allows a server to be reassociated to a new Cloud, which may be necessary at times for easier record keeping in HPE Morpheus Enterprise. In order to use this feature, the user must have “Infrastructure: Move Servers” permission set to “Full.”

Changing Clouds might be necessary, for example, when moving a VM from one vCenter datacenter to another. We can use this tool to update the Cloud association in HPE Morpheus Enterprise as well. Other scenarios may include migrating workloads from private Cloud to public Cloud or even creating a brand new VM in a new Cloud which represents an identical workload to something pre-existing but which will be retired.

NOTE

For VMware Clouds, Cloud reassignment occurs automatically when a server is migrated from one cluster to another or from one resource pool to another within the same cluster. Following the next Cloud sync, HPE Morpheus Enterprise will reflect the migration made in vCenter. In this scenario, you should not try to use the manual change Cloud tools. In fact, you will receive a warning in HPE Morpheus Enterprise logs if you attempt to do so.

To change Clouds, navigate to the VM detail page (Infrastructure > Compute > Virtual Machines > selected VM), click on the ACTIONS menu, and click Change Cloud. You can select the new target Cloud here and optionally select a new VM which the current one should be merged into. The important thing to keep in mind is that this tool is for HPE Morpheus Enterprise record keeping only. **It is not a tool which does migration work for you.** See the embedded video below for a demonstration of this feature.
