# VM Features

HPE Morpheus Enterprise includes the following VM features to support end-to-end virtual machine lifecycle management across provisioning, operations, protection, and optimization.

- Enabling Guest OS Encryption:

  HPE Morpheus Enterprise enables you to enable disk encryption (for example, Windows BitLocker) on the guest operating systems. Disk encryption is achieved by provisioning VMs with UEFI and vTPM Enabled options checked while configuring the VM instance in your cluster. A cluster-level Secure VM metadata store is used for propagating security state across hosts during migration. For more information about enabling UEFI and vTPM Enabled while provisioning a workload, see [Provisioning a Workload](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008014en_us/render?page=GUID-E5D8BA05-A312-4091-93B4-A1AA9C15E1E9.html).

  NOTE

  Ensure to check **UEFI** option to utilize the security capabilities at its fullest potential.

  Before migrating VMs, configure a file-based datastore at the cluster level and enable **Supports VM Secure Metadata** (required). Without this configuration, VM migrations can trigger recovery key prompts because secure metadata remains local to the original node where it is created. For more information about editing an existing datastore, see [Editing Data Stores](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008014en_us/render?page=GUID-D3548220-4D77-4DBB-8313-CFAD68416264.html#GUID-75AC0BF1-B743-422C-844E-FD6FE7C59051 "Editing data stores in HPE Morpheus Enterprise lets you update data store settings that control availability, protection, and cluster behavior for existing storage resources.").
- Workload provisioning and monitoring (Linux or Windows workloads)
- Guest and hypervisor console support for running workloads with selectable hypervisor console keyboard layouts
- Affinity placement, pin VMs to hosts
- Brownfield discovery of existing VMs
- Reconfigure VM sizing
- Disk migration across datastores
- UEFI support
- Migration of VMs across hosts
- Configure automatic failover for individual VMs in the event a host is lost
- Reconfigure running workloads to resize plan, add/remove disks, and add/remove network interfaces
- Backup and restore HVM workloads, with optional synthetic full backups
- Clone VMs
- Take snapshots and revert to snapshots
- HPE Morpheus Enterprise library and automation support
- Integration with HPE Morpheus Enterprise costing features
