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title: "Managing the Users & VMs"
slug: "managing-the-users-vms-1"
updated: 2025-07-01T11:55:21Z
published: 2025-07-01T11:55:21Z
canonical: "help.cloudlabs.ai/managing-the-users-vms-1"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cloudlabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Managing the Users & VMs

### **Managing the Users & VMs - Start/Stop from Control Panel****​**

### **1.Adding and Managing the Users to a Lab****​**

As an Instructor, you would have permission to manage the users in the CloudLabs portal to a specific On Demand Lab. Please follow the below steps which graphically explain how to manage users:

i. You would have access to a specific **On Demand Lab**, click on the **Users** button in the **Actions** pane

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML11.png)

ii. Got attendee list already? Use **Add User** functionality to add users to the lab

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML12.png)

iii. Fill out required information, then click on **Submit** button

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML13.png)

iv. Once user is added, send email to user so that he can activate the lab environment

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML14.png)

### **2. Managing the VMs from Control panel.****​**

i. Open the control panel as shown in the image below.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML15.png)

ii. **Stop the Virtual Machines:** If you want to stop all the Virtual Machines for a specific On Demand Lab, you can stop all VMs together by clicking on **Stop VM**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML16.png)

iii. **Start the Virtual Machines:** If you want to start all the Virtual Machines for a specific On Demand Lab, you can start all VMs together by clicking on **Start VM**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/eb22e69b-92a3-4c63-861d-5b53dc9d04c5/Images/Documentation/ML17.png)